I30 THE MANDRILL. 



augment the fullennefs and deformity of his 

 afpcdl. He is likewife larger, and perhaps ftrong- 

 er than the baboon ; but, at the fame time, he 

 is more peaceable, and lefs ferocious. We here 

 give figures of both the male and the female, 

 which we have feen alive. Whether they had 

 received a better education, or if they be natu- 

 rally more gentle than the baboon, they appear- 

 ed to be more tradable and lefs impudent ; but 

 they were equally difagreeable. 



This fpecies of baboon is found on the Gold 

 Coaft, and in the other fouthern provinces of 

 Africa, where he is called doggohy the Negroes, 

 and mandrill by the Europeans. Next to the 

 orang-outang, he is the largeft of all the apes 

 or baboons. Smith relates *, that he had a pre- 



fent 



* The body of the mandrill, when full grown, is as big 

 in circumference as a middle-fized man's. His legs are much 

 Ihorter, and his feet fonger, his arms and hands in proportion. 

 The head is monftroufly big, and the face broad and 

 flat, without any other hair hut the eye-brows ; the nofe 

 very fmall, tlie mouth wide and the lips thin. The face, 

 which is covered by a white fliin, is extremely ugly, being 

 all over wrinkled as with old age ; the teeth broad and very 

 yellow ; the hands have no more hair than the face, but the 

 fame white Ikin, tliough all tlie reft of the body is covered 

 with long black hair like a bear. They never go upon all 

 four like apes, but cry when vexed or teazed, jufl like chil- 

 dren. It is faid, that the males often attack and ufe violence . 

 10 the Black women, wherever they meet them alone in the 

 woods. They arc generally very fnotty-nofed, and take great 

 delight in fcraping it down from their nofes to their mouths. 

 \yhea 1 was at Skerbro, one Mr Cummerbus made me a pre- 



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