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is comparatively useless; and the cunning robbers actually slip past the vigi- 
lant sentries without the stirring of a grass blade or the rustling of a dried 
twig, to give notice to the open ears of the wakeful but beguiled sentries. 
FEw animals present a more grotesque mixture of fantastic embellishments 
and repulsive ferocity than the baboon which is known under the name of 
MANDRILL. 
The colours of the rainbow are emblazoned on the creature’s form, but 
always in the very spots where one would least expect to see them. A 
bright azure glows, not in its “ eyes of heavenly blue,” but on each side of its 
THE CHACMA.—( Cynocephalus porcarius.) 
nose, where the snout is widely expanded, and swollen into two enormous 
masses. The surfaces of these curious and very unprepossessing projections 
are deeply grooved, and the ridges are bedizened with the cerulean tint above 
mentioned. Lines of brilliant scarlet and deep purple alternate with the 
blue, and the extremity of the muzzle blazes with a fiery red like Bardolph’s 
nose. 
That all things should be equally balanced, the opposite end of the body 
is also radiant with chromatic effect, being plenteously charged with a ruddy 
violet, that is permitted to give its full effect, by the pert, upright carriage of 
the tail, 
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