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The African Pongo walks on his hinder legs, fleeps under trees, 

 builds a hut to proreS him againft the fun and the rains j lives only on 

 fruits ; not carnivorous. When the negroes make a fire in the woods, 

 this animal comes near and warms himJelf by the blaze, but has not fkiil 

 to keep the flame alive by feeding it with fuel. They go in companies ; 

 if they meet a man, fnew him no mercy; attack the elephant with clubs, 

 and drive him from that part of the foreft v/hich they claim. Are 

 ftronger than ten men. 



The Ape, properly fo called, or the Pirhekos of the ancients, is not 

 above a foot and a half high; walks ereft, without a tail, and is eafily 

 tamed. 



The Long-armxd Ape is from two feet to four feet high, walks ereft, 

 without a tail, face refembling man, a circle of bufhy hair round the 

 vifage, eyes are large and funk in its head, face tanned, ears well pro- 

 portioned. When it flands erec^:, its arms reach the ground ; fo that it 

 can walk on ail fours, yet be ere6t at the fame time. Native of die 

 Eaft-Indies, particularly the coaft of Coromandel. 



The Cynocephalus, or Magot (of Buffon) wants a tail, but has a 

 fmall protuberance form.ed by the fkinj alfb a large callous red rump; 

 face prominent, approaching the quadruped ; covered with a brownifli ^ 

 hair J yellow on the belly ; three feet and a half or four feet high ; na- 

 tive of Africa and the Eaft ; fullen, vicious, and untratlable. 



BABOONS. 



THESE animals have a (hort tail, a prominent face, canine teeth 

 larger than thofeof men, and callofities on the rump; fierce, malicious, 

 and untraftable. 



The Baboon, properly fo called, is from three to four feet high, very 

 flrong built, thick body and limbs, and long canine teeth ; large callo- 

 fities behind, quite naked and red ; tail crooked and thick, feven or 

 eight inches long ; its fnout long and thick ; on each fide of its cheeks, 

 a pouch, in^o which, when fatiated with eating, it puts the remainder ; 

 covered with long thick hair, reddifh brown ; walks commonly on all 

 fours; hands as well as feet armed with long Iharp claws, inftead of the 

 broad round nails of the ape kind. 



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