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year old, from a negro, relates that " even at that age, they sat 

 at table, ate of every thing without distinction, made use of 

 their knife, spoon and fork, both to eat their meat and help 

 themselves : they drank wine and other liquors. We carried 

 them on shipboard, and when they were at table, they made 

 signs to the cabin boys, expressive of their wants ; and when- 

 ever they neglected attending upon them as they desired, they 

 instantly flew into a passion, seized them by the arm, bit them, 

 and kept them down. The male was sea-sick, and required 

 attendance like a human creature : he was even twice bled in 

 the right arm ; and every time afterwards, when he found 

 himself indisposed, he showed his arm, as desirous of being 

 relieved by bleeding." 



Henry Grose relates, " that these animals are met with to 

 the north of Coramandel ; that Mr. Home, governor of Bom- 

 bay, had two of them sent him, a male and a female : they 

 were scarcely two feet high, but their form was entirely like 

 the human : they walked erect upon their two feet, and were 

 of a pale color, without any hairs on any other part than where 

 mankind generally have them : their actions perfectly resembled 

 the human, and their melancholy plainly evinced how strongly 

 they felt the weight of their captivity : they made their bed 

 very carefully in the cage in which they were sent on board 

 the ship. When any person looked at them, they hid those 

 parts with their hands, which modesty forbids the sight of. 

 The female (adds he) died on board, and the male showed all 

 real signs of grief, and took the death of his companion so 

 greatly to heart, that he refused his food, and did not survive 

 her more than two days." 



Francis Pyrard relates, " that in the province of Sierra Le- 

 one, in Africa, there are a kind of apes called Barris, which 

 are strong and muscular, and so very industrious, that, if pro- 

 perly fed and instructed while young, they serve as very useful 

 domestics. They usually walk upright, will pound at the 

 mortar, fetch water from the river in a little pitcher, which 

 they carry on their heads ; but, if care be not taken to receive 

 the pitcher at their return, they let it fall to the ground, and 



