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THE SIMLE OF THE OLD WORLD 



Mandrill (Cynocephalus 

 maimon). 



carnation. As the creature increases in age, the nose also 

 becomes blood-red. On the loins the skin is almost bare, and 

 of a violet-blue colour, gradually altering into a bright blood- 

 red, which is more conspicuous on the hinder parts, where 

 it surrounds the tail, which is generally 

 carried erect. 



Even among the base mandrills there 

 are some which maintain in confine- 

 ment the milder character of their 

 youth, and on whom education has had 

 such influence as to allow them to be 

 introduced into company without fear of a too flagitious 

 breach of decorum. One of these pattern animals was '' Happy 

 Jerry," long kept in a London menagerie, and who gained such 

 fame by his good manners, as to be honoured by a special 

 invitation to Windsor. Jerry knew how to sit upon a chair, 

 and worthily to fill it, as he was nearly five feet long. He relished 

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

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

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

 of his keepers. 



The real baboons are distinguished from the mandrills by a long 

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

 {Cynocephalus Sphinx) is by no means devoid of intelligence, 

 and learns many tricks when taught from early youth. His 

 temper, however, is brutal and choleric, 

 though less so than that of the Chacma 

 {Cynocephalus porcarius), or pig-faced 

 baboon, which is found in the vicinity of 

 Cape Town, among others on the celebrated 

 Table Mountain. It frequently commits 

 great devastations in the fields. 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 their growling the approach 

 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. 



Pig -faced Baboon. 



