MONKEY TRIBES. 915 
versity, described as almost infinite, which 
subsists among the Monkey tribes, in their 
native situations. 
** The varieties of the larger classes,” says 
a writer, “‘ are few; in the Ape we have but 
four, and in the Baboon about as many. But 
when we come to the smaller class, the dif- 
ferences among them seem too tedious for 
enumeration: above fifty are found upon the 
Gold Coast alone. Itis remarkable, that the 
Monkeys of two adjoining places are never 
found to mix with each other, but rigorously 
to observe a separation. Each forest con- 
tains only its own; and these guard their 
limits from the intrusion of all strangers of a 
different race from themselves.” 
With the most tenacious vigilance we 
might wonder, from this account, that the 
several species, Intermingled in these Gar- 
dens, continue to live together so well as they 
do, were it not for the great changes in the 
manners of animals which attend either do- 
mestication or confinement. 
The Baboons have been described as a 
large, fierce, and formidable race, which, 
mixing the figure of the man and the quad- 
