NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Descri ption Depredations. 



was drowned, while my heart sickened on his ac- 

 count : for his dying little eyes still continued to 

 follow me with seeming reproach, till their light 

 gradually forsook them, and the wretched animal 

 expired. I felt so much on this occasion, that I 

 could neither taste of him nor his companion, 

 when they were dressed, though I saw that they 

 afforded to some others a delicious repast." 



THE EGRET MONKEY. 



THIS animal is about two feet in length, and 

 somewhat of the colour of a wolf. His head 

 is large and excessively ugly; his nose is de- 

 pressed; his cheeks are wrinkled; his eye-brows 

 prominent and bristly, and his lip cleft with a 

 double fissure. On the top of the head is a 

 pointed tuft of hair; and the feet are black. In 

 its disposition the creature is mild and tractable; 

 but it is so dirty and ugly, that when making its 

 grimaces it can scarcely be viewed without ex- 

 citing sensations of horror and disgust. 



These monkeys frequently assemble in troops 

 in order to plunder the plantations. When they 

 have entered a field of millet, they load them- 

 selves with it, by taking in their mouths as much 

 as they can carry, and putting a quantity under 

 their arms and in each paw. Thus laden they 

 return to their retreats, leaping all the way on 

 their hind feet.- If they happen to be pursued, 



