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Mr. Grofie reports, that two young ones, fcarcelv two feet high 

 (probably under two years of age), which he prefented to the governor 

 of Bombay, refembled mankind in all their aftions. If they were 

 gazed at when in bed, they covered with their hands thofe parts which 

 modefty forbids to expofe. They appeared dcjefted under their cap- 

 tivity ; and the female dying on board fhip, her comrade exhibited 

 every token of heart-felt afflidion, rejecled his food, and did net fur- 

 vive her above two day;. 



Guat, fpeaking of a female which he faw at Java, fays, her fea- 

 ture was very large ; that (he refembled (Irongly fome Hottentot wo- 

 men he had feen at the Cape ; that flie made her own bed every dav 

 very properly, laid her head on the pillow, and covered herfelf with 

 the quilt. When flie had a pain in her head, (he bound it with a 

 handkerchief. — Several other particulars, he fiys, might be enumerated, 

 that were very fingular ; but he fulpefted that thefe animals are often 

 brought, by a habit of inftruftion, to do many of thofe feats, which 

 the vulgar regard as natural ; this, however, he only gives as a matter 

 of conje£lure. 



Gemelli Careri aflerts to have {ttn one that cried like an Infant, 

 and carried a mat in its arms, which it occafionally laid down and 

 repofcd upon. Thefe apes, fays he, leem to have more fenfe than 

 fome among mankind ; for, when they are unable to find any fruits 

 in the mountains for their fubfiftence, they come down to the fea 

 fliore, where they catch crabs, lobfters, and fuch like. A fpecies of 

 oyfter, called tdclovo, frequently lie on the beach. The apes, on per- 

 ceiving any of them gaping, chuck a ftone between the fhells, which 

 hinders them from clofing, and then proceed to devour them without 

 any apprehenfion. 



Francis Pyrard reports, he found the barns in the province of Sierra 

 Leon, in Guiney ; that they are corpulent and mufcular, and fo docile, 

 that, if properly initruded while they are young, they become very 

 good fcrvants. 



Father Jarrle fpeaks of them in the fame terms ; and the tefti- 

 mony of Schoutten agrees with Pyrard on the fubjcdt of the education 

 of thefe amimals ; he fays, they are taken with nets, that they walk 

 ereft, and can ufe their feet occafionally as hands, in performing cer- 

 tain domeftlc fervices, as rinfelng of glafles, prefenting them to drink, 

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