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between himself and his pursuers. On another occasion Mr. Johnston relates how 

 he killed a female out of a troop of baboons he encountered in these districts, 

 who received him with snarlings and other expressions of hostility. After taking 

 the carcase home, he proceeded to cook and eat a portion of it, and although he 

 states that he found the flesh succulent and palatable, we venture to think that his 



THE YELLOW BABOON ( nat. size). 



example will not be generally imitated by those who follow in his footsteps. As 

 we shall see later on, the natives of Guiana are in the habit of eating roast monkey 

 or at least they were so in the time of Humboldt. 



THE GUINEA BABOON (Cynocephalus sphinx). 



There are few species of Mammals that have given rise to more confusion in 

 Natural History literature than this one, of which examples have been described 



