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quently fhot before three or four of them can 

 be obtaiued. Wh.it is fingular, as foon as one 

 is wounded, the reft coUetl about him, and 

 put their fingers into the wound, as if they 

 meant to found it ; and when much blood is 

 difcharged, fomeof them keep the wound fhut, 

 while oti-.ers make a maih of "leaves, ind .Uxte- 

 roufly ftop up the aper ute. Thib operition I 

 have often obfervtd with much admiration. 

 The females bring fortli but one young, which 

 they carry in the fanie manner as the NegrefTes 

 do their children. Tlie ynuig n^onkty em- 

 braces its mother's neck with the two fore- feet, 

 and with the two hind it I lys hold of the mid- 

 dle of her back. When (he wants to give it 

 fuck, (he takes it in her p:iws, and prefents the 

 breaft to it, like a woman . . Tiiere is no o- 

 ther method of obtaining the young but by 

 killing the mother ; for (lie never abandons it. 

 When (he is killed, it falls from her, and may 

 then be feized. When theie animals are em- 

 barraffed, they afliif each other in palling a 

 brook, or from one tree to another. . . . Their 

 cries are heard at the diftance of more than a 

 league *.' 



Moll of thefe fads are conHrmed by Dam- 



M 3 pier : 



♦ Hill, des Arsntuilers, par Ossnaelin, tom. 2. o. 251. 



