CURIOUS CREATURES. 



with Apes, and here he gives us an Ape which, unfor- 

 tunately, does not seem to have survived to modern 

 times namely, one which wove for itself coarse cloth, 

 probably of rushes; had a cloak of skin, and walked 

 upright, with the aid of a walking-stick, and was so 

 genteel, that, having no boots, he seems to have blacked 

 his feet. And thus he sings of it : 



" Pres le Peru par effect le voit on, 



Dieu a donne au Singe telle forme. 

 Vestu dejonc, s'appuyant d'un baston, 

 Estat debout, chose aux homes coforme." 



Before quit- 

 ting the subject 

 of Apes, I can- 

 not refrain from 

 noticing another 

 of this genus 

 mentioned by 

 Topsell, and that 

 is the Arctopi- 

 thecus or Bear 

 Ape: "There is 

 in America a very 

 deformed beast, 

 which the inha- 

 bitants call Haul 

 or Hauti, and 

 the Frenchmen 

 Guenon, as big as 

 a great Affrican 

 Monkey. His 

 belly hangeth 

 very low, his head and face like unto a childes, and being 



