WAXDEROOS. 



CHAPTER XL. 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



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

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

 Chim in Paris — The Gorilla — The Uran — The Gibbons — The Proboscis Monkey 

 — The Huniman — The Wanderoo — The Cercopithecus — A Plundering Party — 

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

 faced Baboon — The Derryas — Wide Difference between the Monkeys of both 

 Hemispheres— Distinctive Characters of the American Monkeys — The Stentor . 

 Monkey — The Spider Monkeys — The Saimiri — Friendships between various 

 kinds of Monkeys — Nocturnal Monkeys — Squirrel Monkeys — Their Lively 

 Intelligence — The Loris and Makis. 



IN the tnidst of tropical vegetation, the Simiae lead a free 

 forest-life, for which they might well be envied. The 

 green canopy of the woods protects them at every season of 

 the year from the burning rays of a vertical sun, flowers of 

 delicious fragrance embalm the air they breathe, and an endless 



