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chained, for, notwithstanding its long subjection, it was neither civilized, 

 nor fond of its keeper ; apparently, it had been but badly educated, for I 

 have seen others of the same kind, who were more sagacious, obedient, 

 gayer, and so tractable as to be taught to dance, and suffer themselves 

 quietly to be clothed and dressed. 



This ape is about two feet and a half, or three feet high, in its erect pos- 

 ture ; but the female is not so large as the male. It is completely covered 

 with a light gray bro^v^l hair. It rather chooses to walk on all fours, than 

 erect. When it sleeps, it is almost always sitting. There are two very 

 prominent callosities on its posteriors. It abounds in Barbary, and in the 

 forests of India, Arabia, and Africa. In Barbary, the trees are sometimes 

 nearly covered with them. This ape is said to have become naturalized in 

 the most inaccessible parts of the rock of Gibraltar. 



It is probably this kind of monkey, which Robert Lade speaks of, in the 

 following terms: "We travelled over a great mountain at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where we diverted ourselves with hunting the large apes, 

 which are there in great plenty. I am not able to represent all the tracta- 

 bleness of these animals which pursued us, nor the swiftness and impudence 

 with which they returned to us after we had driven them away. Some- 

 limes they suffered us to approach so near them, that, stopping almost close 

 to one of these animals to take my observations, I thought myself certain 

 of securing him, when, taking a sudden leap, he sprang above ten paces 

 from me, and climbed up a tree with the greatest agility. They remained 

 afterwards very quiet, looking on us as though they were pleased with our 

 astonishment. There were some so exceedingly large, that if they had 

 been of a ferocious nature, our number would not have been sufficient to 

 secure us from their attacks. As it would have been useless to kill these 

 animals, w« made no use of our guns ; but the captain, thinking to wound 

 one of them, which was seated on a tree, after a long pursuit, had no sooner 

 presented his piece, but the animal, probably from the renaembrance of the 

 execution of some of his companions in the same manner, was so greatly 

 terrified at it, that it fell almost motionless at our feet, and being stunned 

 in the fall, we had not the least trouble to secure it : however, when it 

 revived, we had occasion for all our strength and address to keep it, defend- 



