BABOONa. 



The Pigmy Ape. 



BABOONS. 



The Baboon. — Descending from the more perfect of the 

 monkey kinds, we come to the baboon and its varieties, a large, 

 fierce, and formidable race, that mixing the figure of the man and 

 the quadruped in their conformation, seems to possess only the 

 defects of both; the petulance of the one, and the ferocity of 

 the other. These animals have a short tail ; a prominent face ; 

 with canine teeth, larger than those of men, and callosities on the 

 rump. 



The Mandrill, which also bears the name of the Kibbed- 

 nosed Baboon, is an ugly, disgusting animal. It is found on the 

 Gold Coast, and in other southern provinces of Africa, where the 

 Negroes call it Boggo, and the Europeans Mandrill. This animal 

 is the largest of the Baboon kind, and is equally remarkable for 

 its variety of color, its singularity of appearance, its immense 

 sirongth, and its unconquerable savageness. " Under itn project- 



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