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for a few moments, when it slid off the branch, and first catching 

 it with one hand and hanging a moment, it dropped to the 

 ground, dead. It died about 8 o'clock, and must have been first 

 shot with the poisoned arrows a little before 6. 



This animal was wandering alone ; it was an old male. 



The Drill (and Mandrill ?). 



The Bulu name "sek" is applied to the Drill. The name 

 " zombo " seems to signify a large old male of the same species ; 

 though possibly the Mandrill is found here also, and confounded 

 with the Drill. 



These baboons are not plentiful, and seem to keep to the 

 depths of the forest, remote from villages. In such places they 

 are often found in large companies, though they are some- 

 times seen only three or four together. I have seen a place 

 where the dead leaves had been scratched around as if by hogs 

 rooting, and been told that it was where a troop of "sek" had 

 been feeding, hunting among the leaves for nuts or roots. I have 

 seen places also where little shrubby stemless palms had been 

 grvibbed or pulled up by the roots, and this, I was told, was the 

 work of " sek" that were seeking the tender terminal bud which, 

 in the case of larger palms, is eaten by men. 



Natives have told me that if a company of these animals is 

 sui-rounded while on the ground, they cannot quickly escape by 

 climliing trees ; they are certainly not such agile climbers as the 

 smaller monkeys, but they do climb trees. I have known all but 

 one of a company of them, that were discovered in the tree-tops, 

 to get away by running along the branches and hiding in the 

 foliage, like small monkeys. I have been told that they sleep in 

 the tree-tops, as other monkeys do. 



A wounded male I saw looked very ferocious, and the native 

 hunters seemed afraid he would kill a small dog they had. But 

 I never heard them speak of the " sek " or " zombo " as being 

 dangerous to man. 



A female killed in the month of August was accompanied by a 

 sucking young one. 



The Oercopithecus Monkeys. 



The genus Cercopithecus comprises all the common species of 

 Monkeys of this country. Shooting these monkeys afibrds much 

 sport to white men who get out into the forest, and is the 

 principal occupation of native hunters. They are not easily 

 approached, for they have keen sight and hearing and are shy. 

 They go about in small companies of a dozen or less, with one old 

 male for leader. Often an old male is found alone, probably a 

 defeated candidate for the place of leader, who has gone ofi" by 

 himself. The leader may often be heard calling in a loud, gruff, 

 barking tone, to keep the company together. Except for the 

 occasional call of the leader, the company feeds silently, and the 



