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alive, to make a hot supper for some of those horrible " cannibals 

 that each other eat, the anthropophagi." There's a compensation 

 in all things, and in this question of study-table versus steam- 

 ship, buffalo-waggon, mule's back, Indian canoe, palanquin, &c. 

 &c. &c., much may be said on both sides. 



But to return to the Monkeys. We said that we have never 

 seen tbem at home in their own woods. It will be understood 

 that this statement is to be taken in its gross material sense 

 only, not otherwise. Mentally, we have seen them, scores of 

 times, and in very various circumstances. We have seen them 

 sitting languidly in the hot sun, amongst the groves of mango- 

 trees that grow around Buddhist temples and quiet Hindoo 

 villages, where the Monkey is a sacred being, and no man's hand 

 molests it ; we have seen them, wrathful and vindictive, uttering 

 harsh cries, and gnashing their teeth with foaming passion, as 

 they have fled from well-armed hunters, pursuing them with 

 deadly hatred among the steep rocks of their mountain fastnesses 

 in Southern Africa ; we have seen them, huge, hideous, and 

 formidable, sweeping along, with flying leaps, amongst the dense 

 woods and the swampy forests of Malacca and the islands of the 

 Indian Ocean ; swarming in chattering troops amidst the rank 

 and luxuriant vegetation of the Senegal and the Gambia ; and in 

 the gloomy depths of those same forests traversing the ground in 

 formidable gangs, ready to make war on man or beast. We have 

 seen them, again, as we have glided down the great forest rivers 

 of the New World, now peering at us furtively with their bright 

 and searching eyes from behind the broad-leaved plantains on 

 the banks, now bounding off into the thickets from the over- 

 hanging boughs of the mangrove-trees, while toucans and 

 aracaris still yelped and screamed overhead, and bright green and 

 scarlet parrots swung themselves in the sunlight on the topmost 

 branches. In short, we have tried, though maybe we have not 

 succeeded, to get a sight of the Monkeys wherever there were 

 Monkeys to be seen ; and now, having accomplished that part of 

 our task, we propose, with the permission of our readers, forth- 

 with to marshal the tribe in due order before them, and pass it, 

 company by company, in brief review. 



No one needs to be told that the Monkey tribe includes other 

 animals than those popularly known as Monkeys. Apes and 

 Baboons belong to the tribe equally with the Monkeys properly 



