AND EX Q^U I M A. 187 



are beardlefs. They are of a middle fize, yet 

 extraordinary fat at the dry feafon, when the 

 fruits are ripe ; and they are very good meat, 

 for we ate of them very plentifuly. The In- 

 dians vi'ere fhy of eating them for a while ; 

 hut they foon were perfuaded to it, by feeing 

 us feed on them fo heartily. In the rainy fea- 

 fon they have worms in their bowels. I have 

 t:iken a handful of them out of one monkey 

 we cut open ; and fome of them feven or eighx 

 feet long. They are a very waggifla kind of 

 monkey, and played a thoufand antick tricks 

 as we marched at any time through the woods, 

 fkipping from bough to bough, with the young 

 ones hanging at the old ones backs, making 

 faces at us, chattering, and, if they had opor- 

 tunity, pilfing down purpofely on our heads. 

 To pals from top to top of high trees, whofe 

 branches are a little too far afunder for their 

 leaping, they will fometimes hang down by 

 one another's tails in a chain ; and fwinging 

 in that manner, the lowermoft catches hold of 

 a bough of the other tree, and 'draws up the 

 rell of them*.' All thefe fa«£ts, even the worms 

 n the intePiines, correfpond with our coaitas. 

 M. Daubenton, in difledling thefe animals, found 

 a great number of worms, lome of which were 

 from twelve to thirteen inches long. It is obvi- 

 ous, therefore, that the exquiraa of Marcgrave is 



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* Dampier's voyages, vol. 3. p. 330. 



