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rocks can be plainly heard three or four miles off. It is said that 
baboons when wounded will retaliate by pelting stones on their 
asailants; but we have not found this to be the case. Any time 
that we have surprised them, they only evinced a desire to escape, 
climbing with wonderful agility the almost perpendicular cliffs, and 
on reaching the top scampering off on their four legs with the 
swiftness of a dog. 
On the 23rd of January, 1873, we caught a fine baboon in a 
steel trap, by the leg, but some of our Kafirs working near hearing 
its cries, and influenced, we suppose, by feelings of revenge, beat 
the poor animal to death before we could arrive on the scene. 
This was a disappointment to us, as we should have found pleasure 
in studying its habits in captivity. We saw several tame baboons 
near Durban, belonging to a Mr. Thomson, a naturalist, collecting 
for an American society; they were caged, but seemed to bear 
their confinement well. One is kept in a yard behind the Pieter- 
maritzburg barracks, where it is made a great pet of by the soldiers, 
who have taught it some amusing tricks. 
Monkeys. — The green monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus) 
abounds throughout the bush, where it sports and gambols in the 
trees like the squirrel does at home. It is a pretty little animal, of 
a greenish gray colour, and is about three feet in length, including 
the tail, which is about the same length as the body. We have 
had several of these monkeys at different times, but they always 
managed to make their escape after a few months, although they 
were perfectly tame when chained; once at liberty, the woods 
seemed to have too great an attraction forthem. A neighbour of 
ours caught an old female monkey with a young one newly born; 
this she reared and showed great affection for in confinement. 
Monkeys have many enemies; during the day eagles, hawks and 
snakes prey upon them, and at night they are often disturbed 
by the leopard, who, stealing cautiously up the tree, grabs one 
before it is aware of the vicinity of so formidable an antagonist. 
A large buzzard was shot here in the act of eating a full-grown 
monkey which it had just killed. They are generally quiet after 
dark, but if frightened set up a loud chattering noise. These 
monkeys are even more destructive to the cane and corn crops 
than the baboon, being of a more pertinacious disposition, and of 
course much more numerous: the crops have to be closely guarded 
from their depredations from sunrise to sunset. A rather cruel 
