XVI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



ANT-EATERS. 



The Great Ant-Bear — His Way of Licking up Termites — His Formidable Weapons 

 — A Perfect Forest Vagabond — His Peculiar Manner of Walking — The Smaller 

 Ant-Eaters — The Manides — The African Aard Vark — The Armadillos — The 

 Glyptodon — The Porcupine Ant-Eater of Australia — The Myrmecobius Fas- 

 ciatus Page 482 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



TROPICAL BATS. 



Wonderful Organisation of the Bats— The Fox-Bat— The Vampire — Its Blood- 

 Sucking Propensities — The Horse-Shoe Bats — The Flying Squirrel — The Gale- 

 opithecus — The Anomalurus 490 



CHAPTER XL. 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



The Forest Life of the Simise — Excellent Climbers, Bad Pedestrians — Similitude 

 and Difference between the Human Race and the Ape — The Chimpanzee — 

 Chimin Paris — The Gorilla — The Uran — The Gibbons — The Proboscis Monkey 

 — The Huniman — The Wanderoo — The Cercopitheca — A Plundering Party — 

 Parental Affection of a Cercopitheca — The Maimon — ' Happy Jerry' — The Pig- 

 Faced Baboon — The Derryat — Wide Difference between the Monkeys of both 

 Hemispheres — Distinctive Characters of the American Monkeys — The Stentor 

 Monkey — The Spider Monkeys — The Laimirit — Friendships Between Various 

 Kinds of Monkeys — Nocturnal Monkeys — Squirrel Monkeys — Their Lively 

 Intelligence — The Loris and Makis 496 



CHAPTER XLI. 



THE AFRICAN NEGROES. 



Causes of the Inferiority of Negro Civilisation — Natural Capabilities of the Negro 

 — Geographical Formation of Africa — Its Political Condition — Physical Con- 

 formation of the Negro — Fetishism — The Rain-Doctor — The Medicine-Man — 

 Religious Observances — Gift-Offerings — Human Sacrifices — Ornaments — The 

 Pelele — The Bonnians — Their Barbarous Condition— The Town of OkoUoma — 

 Negroes of the Lake Regions— The Iwanza— Slavery— A Miserable Group 618 



