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though someone had laid a thick coat of red paint on its coun- 
tenance. . . . After seeing much of the morose disposi- 
tion of the Uakari, I was not a little surprised one day, at a 
friend’s house, to find an extremely lively and familiar indi- 
vidual of the species. It ran from an inner chamber straight 
towards me after I had sat down ona chair, climbed my legs 
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and nestled in my lap, turning round and looking up with the 
usual Monkey’s grin after it had made itself comfortable. It 
was a young animal, which had been taken when its mother 
was shot with a poisoned arrow; its teeth were incomplete, 
and the face was pale and mottled, the glowing scarlet hue 
not supervening in these animals before mature age; it had 
also a few long black hairs on the eyebrows and lips. The 

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