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, When they rob an orchard or vineyard (for they are extremely fond 

 of grapes, apples, and ripe fruit), they go in large connpanies ; part 

 enter the inclofure, but firfl: fet a centinel ; the reft form a line from 

 their fellows within, to their rendezvous in fome craggy mountain j thofe 

 within, the orchard throw the fruit to thofe without, or, if the wall be 

 high, to thofe on the top, and thefc to thofe beyond them, all along the 

 line : while this is going forward with great expedition, they obferve a 

 profound filence. 



The natives of the Cape often take them young, and, feeding them 

 with milk, accuftom them to guard their houfes. Inhabit alfo Siam. 



The largeft of the baboon kind is the Mandril j ugly and difgufling, 

 fhort, from four to five feet high ; muzzle long, of a blueifh colour, 

 itrongly marked with wrinkles; from the nofe ifTues a fnot, which the 

 animal at intervals licks off with its tongue -, is native of the Gold 

 Coaft ; faid to walk frequently ered, and, when difpleafed, to weep 

 like a child. 



The Wanderow is rather lefs than the former j tail from feven to 

 eight inches long; muzzle prominent; has a large long white head of 

 hair, with a monftrous white beard, coarfe, rough, and defcending; the 

 colour of the reft of the body brown or black ; equally fierce ; yet feems 

 more tradable than moft of its kind j is chiefly (ttn in the woods .of 

 Ceylon and Malabar. 



The Pigtail is in fize no larger than a cat; has a prominent muzzle; 

 the tail five or fix inches long, curled up like that of a hog ; native of 

 Sumatra. Edwards, kept one of them in London ; another happening to 

 be expofed in a Ihew of beafts, he brought the two exiles together. 

 The moment they came into each other's prefence, they teftified their 

 mutual fatisfadion, and Icemed quite tranfported at the interview. 



M O N K I E S 



HAVE numerous varieties : Bofman mentions above fifty forts on 

 the Gold Coaft alone ; and Condamine afferts, that it would take a 

 volume to defcribe thofe along the river Amazons j fcarce a country in 

 the tropical climates that does not fwarm with them ; fcarce a foreft 

 that has not a race diftind from all others i for the monkies of two 



cantons 



