152 CHINESE-BONNET. 



the trees; for they never fail to deftroy the nefts, 

 and dafh the eggs on the ground *. 



Neither the tiger nor other ferocious animals 

 are the moft formidable enemies to the mon- 

 keys ; for they eafily make their efcape by their 

 nimblenefs, and by living on the tops of trees, 

 where nothing but ferpents have the art of fur- 

 priling them, ' The apes,' a traveller remarks, 

 ' are mafters of the forefts ; for their dominion 



* is not difputed either by the tiger or lion, 



* The only animals they have to dread are the 



* ferpents, who make perpetual war upon them. 

 ' Some of thef'e ferpents are of a prodigious fize, 



* and fwallow an ape in a moment. Others are 

 ' fmaller, but more agile, and go in queft of the 

 ' apes on the trees They watch the 



* time when the apes fleep t,' <^c. 



DijTmcll'vc Characlers of thefe Species. 



The malbrouck has cheek-pouches and callo- 

 fities on his buttocks. The tail is nearly as 

 long as both the body and head. The eye- '; 

 lids are flefti-coloured, and the face of a cinere- 

 ous; 



• See les voyages de la Boulaye le Gouz, p. 253. Relat. 

 de Thevenot, torn 3. p. 20. Voyage de Gemelli Carreri, torn. J. 

 p. 164. Le Recueil des voyages qui ont fervi a I'etabliffe. 

 mcnt de la Compagnie de Indes Orientales, torn. 7. p. 36. 

 Voyage d'Orient du P. Philippe, p. 312. et Voyage de T^- 

 vernier, torn. 3. p. 64. 



I Defciipt. Hiftorique de Macaear, p- 51- . 



