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terrible brute, and it is said that the only, creatures that dare attack him are the 

 crocodile and python." 



"And how do they make out?" asked Jack Harvey. 



"He kills the crocodile by main strength, and doesn't find it hard to do the 

 same with the python. In fact, he Comes closer to the gorilla, in most of his char- 

 acteristics, than any animal of which I have knowledge. The next genus of the 

 ape family is that of Hylobates, so called because of their power of walking nearly 

 erect. They have several species known as Gibbons, or long-armed apes. They 



HRAD OF ORANG-OUTANS. 



live in troops among the upper branches ol trees in upland districts, the different 

 species being found in Assam, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra. Borneo andCam- 

 bodia, Hainan It isn't worth while to discuss them, lor we are more interested 

 in .the animals with which we have just had some experience." 



" I believe they come under the family of sacred monkeys? " was the inquiring 

 remark of Dick Brownell. 



" No ; there are two genera of that family, but the baboons belong to the family 

 of cheek-pouched monkeys, the most widely distributed of all the Old World 

 monkeys, one variety being found as far north as Gibraltar, and others in North 



