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except that which has been given them by Man. " The 

 Monkey who had seen the world," and went home and 

 tanght his companions, is a fable in both senses of the word. 

 The Monkey tribe are formed to pass their lives in the 

 trees among the branches, their hands being formed to suit 

 this kind of life. JS"one of them walk well, but when they 

 are among the branches, swinging themselves from bough 

 to bough, few creatures are more active ; their food is fruit 

 and nuts of all kinds. The Chimpanzee, certainly, is the 

 nearest approach to Man in the lower animals, and walks 

 better in an upright position than does the Ourang-outang y 

 whose whole life is spent in the trees, while the Chimpanzee 

 often inhabits holes in the earth and rocks. In the " Penny 

 Cyclopaedia " is the following account of one, by Captain 

 Payne : 



" It shook hands with some of the sailors, but refused its 

 hand with marks of anger to others, without any apparent 

 cause. It speedily, however, became familiar with the crew, 

 except one boy, to whom it was never reconciled. "When, 

 the seamen's mess was brought on deck it was a constant 

 attendant, would go round and embrace each person, while 

 it uttered loud yells, and then seat itself among them to 

 share the repast." 



Some of the Monkey tribe (the Spider-monkeys) have the 

 power of holding fast with the end of the tail ; it, in fact, 

 forms a sort of hand, and they swing from the boughs by it, 

 and it is said that several will attach themselves in this way, 

 forming a long chain, and swing themselves from the top- 

 most bough of a tree when they wish to cross a stream, the 

 lowest catching hold of the boughs on the opposite side, and 

 the uppermost of them letting go his hold, they are all thus 

 conveyed across. 



12. BIMANA (two-handed). This order includes Man 

 alone. Man has been placed in a separate class, and not as 

 the first order of the Mammalia, but, as will be presently 

 noticed, although he has many attributes which no other 

 animal has, yet in bodily construction, and all the functions 

 of his material part, he so nearly resembles the other orders 



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