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its teeth. It put whatever was given to it into the pouches 

 on each side of its jaws, and commonly ate every thing that 

 was offered to it, except raw flesh, cheese, and other things of 

 a fermentative nature. When it slept, it was fond of roosting 

 on a wooden or iron bar. It was always kept chained, for 

 notwithstanding its long subjection, it was neither civilized, 

 nor fond of its keeper : apparently, it had been but badly edu- 

 cated ; for I have seen others of the same kind who were 

 more sagacious, obedient, gayer, and so tractable as to be 

 taught to dance, and suffer themselves quietly to be clothed 

 and dressed. 



This ape is about two feet and a half or three feet high, in 

 its erect posture ; but the female is not so large as the male. 

 It rather chooses to walk on all fours, than erect. When it 

 sleeps, it is almost always sitting. There are two very prom- 

 inent collosities on its posteriors. It differs also from the Pith- 

 ecos ; first in the form of its snout, which is thicker and longer, 

 like that of a dog ; whereas the Pithecos has a flat visage, 

 like the human. Secondly, in having long canine teeth ; in- 

 stead of which the Pithecos has them no longer in proportion 

 than those of a man. Thirdly, in its nails, which are neither 

 so flat nor so round ; and, in short, it is larger, and of a more 

 sullen and untractable disposition than the other. It abounds 

 in Barbary, and in the forests of India, Arabia, and Africa. 

 In Barbary the trees are sometimes nearly covered with them. 



It is probably this kind of Monkey which Robert Lade 

 speaks of in the following terms : " We travelled over a great 

 mountain at the Cape of Good Hope, where we diverted our- 

 selves with hunting the large Apes, which are there in great 

 plenty. I am not able to represent all the tractableness of 

 these animals which pursued us, nor the swiftness and impu- 

 dence with which they returned to us after we had driven 

 them away. Sometimes they suffered us to approach so near 

 them, that, stopping almost close to one of these animals, to 

 take my observations, I thought myself certain of securing 

 him, when, taking a sudden leap, he sprang above ten paces 

 from me, and climbed up a tree with the greatest agility. 



