198 THE SAL 



Dijiin£iive Chambers of this Species. 



The fais have neither cheek-pouches nor cal- 

 lofities on their buttocks. The partition of theif 

 noftrils is very thick, and the apertures are pla- 

 ced at a fide, not under the nofe. The face is 

 round and flat, and the ears are almoft naked, 

 The tail is prehenfile, and naked below toward 

 its extremity. Upon the upper parts of the 

 body, the hair is of a blackifh brown colour, and 

 on the inferior parts, of a pale yellow or dirty 

 white. Thefe animals exceed not fourteen in- 

 ches in length ; and their tail is longer than 

 both body and head. They walk on four feet. 

 The females are not fubjefted to the menfes. 



The 



as foon as brought forth, holds firm by the neck of its mother 

 or father. When piirfaed by the hunters, they fave them- 

 felves by leaping from branch to branch, carrying their young 

 on their backs. The favages, therefore, being unable to feize 

 «itlier the young of the old, are obliged to wound them with 

 arrows ; after which they fall from the tops of the trees, either 

 ftunned or wounded. When cured ot the wounds, and ren- 

 dered fomewhat tame, they are fold by the Savages ; for, 

 wlien firfl taken, they are fo ferocious, and bite fo obRinatelyj 

 that they quit not their hold till they be torn in piecct ; 

 Voyage de Lery, p. 1 64, 



