Monkeys of the Old World. 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



THE SIMI.E OF THE OLD WOELD. 



Forest-Life — Excellent Climbers — Bad Pedestrians — Imperfectly known to the 

 Ancients — Similitude and Difference between the Human Kace and the Apes — 

 The Chimpanzee — Chim in Paris — The Gorilla — The Uran — The Gibbons — 

 -^ Siamang on Board — The Proboscis Monkey — The Huniman — TheWanderoo 

 — The Cercopitheci — The Maimon — "Happy Jerry" — The Pig-Faced Baboon 

 — TheDerryas — The Loris and Makis. 



IN the midst of tropical vegetation, the Simise 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 the most 

 delicious fragrance embalm the air they breathe, and an endless 

 supply of fruits and nuts never allows them to know want, for 

 should the stores near at hand be exhausted, an easy migration 



