BABOONS. 



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between himself ami liis pui-suei-s. On anotlier occasion Mr. Johnston relates how 

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

 who received him with snarlinjjjs and other expressions of hostility. Aftei- takini;; 

 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 (J nat. size). 



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

 we sliall see later on, the nati\cs of Guiana are in the habit of eating roast monkey 

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



The Guinea Baboon {Fajrio .iphinx). 



There are few species of llaiiiinals that have given ri.se to more confusion in 

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



