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greatest apparent satisfaction. ]\I. Donefti tlicn introdiicetl the tight-rope 

 dancer, a mandrill of the hirgest size, who, in imitation of the rope-dancer, 

 Iiad his feet chalked, and then commenced his dancing and jiniiping on the 

 rope, with a balance-pole in his hands. At the rise of the curtain, and at 

 the sound of martial music, the Marchioness of Batavia entered, riding in 

 her barouche, drawn by two white poodles. On the box a monkey-coach- 

 man sat, holding the reins and cracking his whip. Behind the carriage a 

 monkey-footman rode in rich livery. The noble monkey-lady had occasion to 

 descend from her carriage, and displayed her rich costume. She I'emounted ; 

 the carriage started at a rapid rate ; one of the linchpins gave way ; the 

 barouche was upset; the moukey-lady fell out; a chair was brought, on 

 which she sat, stcadj'ing her nerves, until the footman, who had run about 

 to repair the accident, succeeded in recovering the wheel and re[)lacing it ; 

 all the time during the accident the coachman had been holding his dog- 

 coursers, to prevent their running away. The cari'iagc having been 

 repaired, the monkey-marchioness reiintered, and the erpiipagc drove off. 



In another scene — ''The Deserter" — a dog dressed as a soldier was seen 

 walking on his hind legs, carrying a musket on his shoiddcr, and leading 

 in a monkey, also dressed in uniform, with two large red epaulets. A 

 monkey robed as a clergyman, with white bands projecting from his throat, 

 broutrlit in a ijlacardcd sentence of coudcuinatidn to death bv shootinir. 

 AVhile a bell was slowly tolling, the master tied a handkerchief around the 

 head of the cul[)rit, who, as one of the dogs fired a gun at him, fell motion- 

 less as if dead. A mournful tune was heard, and a monkey, dressed as a 

 grave-digger, in rusty black clothes, wheeling in a black cart, put the dead 

 monkey into it, and took him off to perform the burial. 



The above fiicts would seem to show that naturalists are not quite correct 

 in their positive and persistent assertion that baboons caiuiot l)e tamed. 

 According to Le Vaillant, the celebrated traveller, — the same who first dis- 

 covered the giraffe, — even the dog-headed baboon {Ui/nocephnlns (oui/jt's) 

 may be domesticated. lie procured one of this species when in Southern 

 Africa, of which he has given the following interesting account : — 



" I took him with me wherever I went, and made him my faster. 

 Whenever we found fruits or roots, with which my Hottentots where un- 

 acquainted, wc did not touch them till ' Kees ' — this was the name he had 

 given him — had tasted them. If he threw them away, we concluded that 

 they were cither of a disagreeable fiavor or of a pernicious quality, and left 

 them untastcd. The baboon possesses a peculiar property, wherein he differs 

 greatly from other animals, and resembles man, namely, that he is by na- 

 ture equally gluttonous and inquisitive. Without necessity and without 

 appetite, he tastes everything that falls in his way, or that is given to !iim. 



