CURIOUS CREATURES. 



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quotes Cardanus as saying that the Cercopithecus or 



Wild-man, is singularly made, having the height and 



form of a man, with legs 



like man's and is covered 



all over with hair. No 



animal can withstand it, 



with the exception of man, 



to whom, when in its own 



regions, it is not inferior. 



It loves boys and women. 



Pliny speaks of the 

 Satyr Ape thus : " Among 

 the mountainous districts 

 of the eastern parts of 

 India, in what is called 

 the country of the Cathar- 

 cludi, we find the Satyr, 

 an animal of extraordi- 

 nary swiftness. They go 

 sometimes on four feet, 

 and sometimes walk erect; 

 they have, also, the features 

 of a human being. On 

 account of their swiftness, 

 these creatures are never HP 

 to be caught, except when 



they are aged, or sickly," and, in another place, he says, 

 " The Sph^ngium and the Satyr stow away food in the 

 pouches of their cheeks, after which they will take out 

 piece by piece in their hands, and eat it." 



Topsell has mixed up the Simia Satyrus with the 

 classical satyr, having legs and horns like goats ; but 

 he evidently alludes to the former in this passage. " The 



