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lond and diftincl voice. The moment this 

 fignal is given, the whole troop throw down 

 the canes they held in their left hand, and run 

 off on three feet. When purfued hard, they 

 quit what they had in their right hand, and 

 lave themfelves by climbing trees, which are 

 the ufual places of their abode. They leap 

 from tree to tree ; and even the females, 

 though loaded with their young, which they 

 Kold firmly, leap like the others ; but they 

 fometimes fall. Thefe animals are never more 

 than half-tamed, and always require a chain. 

 Even in their own country, they never pro- 

 duce, when in bondage : They require to be 

 at perfed freedom in the woods. When fruits ' 

 and fucculent plants fail, they eat infeds, and 

 fometimes defcend to the margins of rivers, 

 and the fca-coaft, to catch fifties and crabs. 

 7 hey put their tail between tlie pincers of 

 the crab, and, whenever the pincers are clofed, j' 

 they carry it quickly off, and eat it at their 

 Icifure. They gather cocoa nuts, and are well 

 acquainted with the method of extrafting the 

 juice for drink, and the kernel for food. They 

 likevvife drink the zari that drops from thel|l 

 bamboos, which they place on the tops of trees, 

 in order to extrad tl^e liquors; and they uf^t 

 it occafionally. They are taken by means or 

 a cocoa nut, with a fmall hole made in it. 

 They put their paw into the hole with difficul- 



