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Native boldness Affecting manners when wounded. 



Some of them broke down dry sticks and flung 

 at me ; and one bigger than the rest, came to a 

 small limb just over my head, and leaping di- 

 rectly at me, made me start back, but the mon- 

 key caught hold of the bough with the tip of his 

 tail, and there remained swinging to and fro, 

 making mouths at me. At last I passed on, they 

 still keeping me company, with the like menacing 

 gestures till I came to our huts. 



" They are very sullen when seized, and ex- 

 tremely difficult to be taken when shot, for they 

 will cling with their tail and feet to a bough, as 

 long as any life remains. When I have shot at 

 one, and broken its leg or arm, I have pitied 

 the poor creature, to see it look at and handle 

 the broken limb, and then turn it from side to 

 side in a manner so mournful as scarcely to be 

 described. 



The same author asserts, that they frequently 

 descend to the sea-shores to feed on shell-fish. 

 He saw several of them take up oysters from the 

 beach, lay them on a stone, and beat them with 

 another till they demolished the shells, and then 

 devour their contents. The same circumstance 

 was observed by Wafer in the island of Gorgo- 

 nia. The females produce only one at a birth ; 

 which they carry in the same manner as the Ne- 

 gresses do their children on their backs. There 

 is no other method of obtaining the young, but 

 by shooting the dam, for nothing will induce her 



