r>io Tiii<: TRoricAL wojild. 



liis pot of porter, which he used to drink out of a pewter can, 

 and smoked his pipe with all the gravity of a Grerraan philo- 

 sopher. But even Jerry was not to be trusted out of the sight 

 of his keepers. 



JIAXDIULL (CYNOCEPHALUS MAIMON). PlG-l^ACED BABOOX. 



The real baboons are distinguished from the mandrills by a 

 long tail, terminated by a tuft of hair. The great baboon of 

 Senegal {Cynocs'plialus Sphinx) is by no means devoid of in- 

 telligence, and learns many tricks when taught from early 

 youth. His temper, however, is brutal and choleric, though 

 less so than the Chacma (Cynocejohalus porcarius), or pig- 

 faced baboon, which is found in the vicinity of Cape Town, 

 among others on the celebrated Table Mountain. Young 

 chacmas are often kept as domestic animals, performing the 

 offices of a mastiff, whom they greatly surpass in strength. 

 Thus they immediately announce by thei/^ growling the ap- 

 proach of a stranger, and are even employed for a variety of 

 useful purposes which no dog would be able to perform. Here 

 one is trained to blow the bellows of a smith ; there another to 

 guide a team of oxen. When a stream is to be crossed, the 

 chacma immediately jumps upon the back of one of the oxen, 

 and remains sitting till he has no longer to fear tlie wet, which 

 he loves .as little as the cat. 



In Abyssinia, Nubia, and South Arabia we find the Derryas 

 (C. Hamadryas), which enjoyed divine honours among the 

 ancient Egyptians. The general colour of the hair is a mixture 

 of light-grey and cinnamon, and in the male that of the head 

 and neck forms a long mane, falling back over the shoulders. 

 The face is extremely long, naked, and of a dirty flesh-colour. 

 This ugly monkey was revered as the symbol of Thoth, the 

 divine father of literature and the judge of man after death. 

 Formerly temples were erected to his honour, and numerous 

 priests ministered to his wants, but now, by a sad change of 



