302 WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA 



I mentioned, in a former adventure, that I had 

 hit upon an entirely new plan of making the skins 

 of quadrupeds retain their exact form and feature. 

 Intense application to the subject has since that 

 period enabled me to shorten the process, and 

 hit the character of an animal to a very great 

 nicety, even to the preservation of the pouting 

 lip, dimples, warts, and wrinkles on the face. I 

 got a fine specimen of the howling monkey; and 

 took some pains with it, in order to show the im- 

 mense difference that exists betwixt the features 

 of this monkey, and those of man. 



I also procured an animal which has caused not 

 a little speculation and astonishment. In my 

 opinion, his thick coat of hair, and great length 

 of tail, put his species out of all question; but 

 then his face and head cause the inspector to 

 pause for a moment, before he ventures to pro- 

 nounce his opinion of the classification. He was 

 a large animal, and as I was pressed for daylight, 

 and moreover, felt no inclination to have the 

 whole weight of his body upon my back, I con- 

 tented myself with his head and shoulders, which 

 I cut off: and have brought them with me to 

 Europe.^ I have since found, that I acted quite 

 right in doing so, having had enough to answer 

 for the head alone, without saying anything of his 

 hands and feet, and of his tail, which appendage, 

 Lord Kames asserts, belongs to us. 



The features of this animal are quite of the 



*My young friend, Mr. J. H. Foljambe, eldest son of Thomas 

 Foljambe, Esq. of Wakefield, has made a drawing of the head and 

 shoulders of this animal, and it is certainly a most correct and 

 striking likeness of the original. 



