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chained, for, notwithstanding its long subjection, it was neither civilized, 
nor fond ofits keeper: apparently, it had been but badly educated, for J 
have seen others of the safe 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 brown 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 witli hunting the large apes, 
which are there in great plenty. Iam 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- 
times 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 elnabed 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, we 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 remembrance 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- 
