266 QUESTIONABLE SPORT. 



animal in a state of nature is derived from the " Natural History 

 of Senegal," by Adanson, the Scoto-French naturalist, who 

 resided in the country for several years, and diligently studied 

 its productions, both animal and vegetable. At one place, he 

 tells us, he went on shore to divert himself with his gun. " The 

 place was very woody, and full of Green Monkeys, which I did 

 not perceive, but by their breaking the boughs and the tops of 

 the trees, which they tumbled down on me ; for in other respects 

 they were so silent and nimble in their tricks, that it would 

 have been difficult to perceive them. Here I stopped, and .killed 

 two or three of them before the others seemed to be much 

 frightened ; however, when they found themselves wounded, 

 they began to look about for shelter, some by hiding behind the 

 larger boughs, others by coming down upon the ground, others, 

 and by far the greater number, by jumping from one tree to 

 another. Nothing could be more entertaining, when several of 

 them jumped together on the same bough, than to see it bend 

 under them, and the hindmost drop down to the ground, whilst 

 the rest got farther on, and others were still suspended in the 

 air. As this game was going on, I continued to shoot at them ; 

 and though I killed no fewer than three-and-twenty in less than 

 an hour, yet not one of them screeched the whole time, notwith- 

 standing that they united in companies, knit their brows, 

 gnashed their teeth, and seemed as if they intended to attack 

 me." A vivid picture that, and of use here ; but we wonder 

 whether, while engaged in this excellent " sport," than which, he 

 tells us, he does not think " there ever was better," the good 

 easy naturalist ever thought of the fable of the frogs in the 

 pond. 



In the highest group of the Monkeys we find the cheek- 

 pouches absent and the thumb only partially developed. The 

 Monkeys of this division are all natives of India, the peninsula of 

 Malay, and the adjacent islands, and are termed by Cuvier " Slow 

 Monkeys," rather, it would seem, from their listless and apathetic 

 disposition, than from any incapacity for active and vivacious 

 movements. One of the most remarkable Monkeys of the section 

 is the Kahan, or Proboscis Monkey (Semnopithecus larvatus), a 

 native of Borneo, and, without question, the most unlovely of all 

 Sir James Brooke's numerous zoological neighbours. Kahan is 

 its native name, and represents the deep-toned cry with which 



