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mentioned by Marmol *, which is of the colour 

 of a wild cat, and faid to come from the Negro 

 country, is a variety of the patas. 



Thefe monkeys are not equally dexterous as 

 the other kinds ; and, at the fame time, they are 

 extremely inquifitive. ' I have feen them,' fays 

 Brue,' delcend from the tops of the trees to the 

 extremities of the branches, in order to admire 

 the barks as they pafTed. They ftare for fome 

 time, feem to be entertained with what they 

 have feen, and then give place to thofe who 

 come after. They became fo familiar as to 

 throw branches at the Frenchmen, who re- 

 turned the compliment by the fhor of their 

 mufkets. Some of them fell, others were 

 wounded, and the reft were ftruck with a 

 ftrange confternation. One party raifed hide- 

 ous cries ; another colleded ftones to throw at 

 the enemy: Some of them, with their bowels 

 in their hands, attempted to throw their in- 

 trails at the fpedators. At laft, perceiving the 

 combat to be. at leaft equal, they retired "f*' 

 It is probably this fpecies of monkey which 

 le Maire fpeaks of in the following terms : 

 ' The havock which thefe monkeys make in the 

 ' fields of Senegal, when the millet and otheCv 

 grains are ripe, is not to be exprelTed. They 

 Vol. VIII. K ' affemble 



• The apes of the colour of a wild cat, with a long tail, and 

 a white or black muzzle, commonly called in Spain Galoj- 

 faulij, come frbm^ the Negro country ; L'Afrique de Marmol, 

 torn. 1. p. jy. 



t Relat. de Bnie, Hift. gen. des voyages, torn. 2. p. 521. 



