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order, he shewed his arm, as desirous of being re- 

 lieved by bleeding. 



Pyrard relates, that in the province of Sierra 

 Leone, in Africa, there are a kind of apes, called 

 Baris, which are strong and muscular, and which, 

 if properly instructed when young, serve as very 

 useful domestics. They usually walk upright; 

 they pound at a mortar ; they go to the river to 

 fetch water; this they carry back in a little 

 pitcher, on their heads ; but if care be not taken 

 to receive the pitcher at their return, they let it 

 fall to the ground, and then, seeing it broken, 

 they begin to lament and cry for their loss. Le 

 Compte's account is much to the same purpose, 

 of an ape which he saw in the Straits of Molucca. 

 " It walked upon its two hind-feet, which it bent 

 a little, like a dog that had been taught to dance. 

 It made use of its hands and arms as we do. Its 

 visage was not much more disagreeable than that 

 of a Hottentot ; but the body was all over co- 

 vered with a woolly hair of different colours. As 

 to the rest, it cried like a child ; all its outward 

 actions were so like the human, and the passions 

 so lively and significant, that dumb men could 

 scarcely better express their conceptions and de- 

 sires. It had also that expression of passion or 

 joy which we often see in children, stamping 

 with its feet and striking them against the ground, 

 to show its spite, or when refused any thing it 

 passionately longed for. Although these ani- 

 mals," continues he, " are very big, for that I 

 saw was four feet high, their nimbleness is incre- 

 dible. It is a pleasure beyond expression to see 



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