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Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.S., Iforth Finchley. 

 GREY-CHEEKED MANGABEY. 

 One of the small African monkcya. 



Fhoto by A. S. liudiaad d- Sons, 



CHINESE MACAQUE. 



This monkey lives in a climate as cold as that 



of EnylanJ. 



"^"'■^' '."• Dutch in the Old Colony 



would rather let their 



^^^^ * ■ dogs bait a lion than 



J^^BM^ ^ troop of baboons. 



B^^HHHI The rescue of the infant 



chacma which Erelirn 

 saw himself is a remark- 

 able, and indeed the 

 most incontestable, 

 instance of the exhi- 

 bition of courage and 

 self-sacrifice by a 'tnale 

 animal. 



If the baboons 

 were not generally 

 liable to become bad- 

 tempered when they 

 grow old, they could 

 probably be trained to 

 be among the most useful of animal helpers and servers ; but they are so formidable. 

 And so uncertain in temper, that they are almost too dangerous for attempts at semi- 

 domestication. When experiments have been made, they have had remarkable results. Le 

 Vaillant, one of the early explorers in South Africa, had a chacma baboon which was a better 

 watch than any of his dogs. It gave warning of any creature approaching the camp at 

 night long before the dogs could hear or smell it. He took it out with him when he was 

 •shootino-. and used to let it collect edible roots for him. The latest examijle of a trained 

 baboon only died a few years ago. It belonged to a railway signalman at Uitenhage station, 

 about 200 miles up-country from Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony. The man had the 

 misfortune to undergo an operation in which both his feet were amputated, after being 

 ■crushed by the wheels of a train. Being an ingenious fellow, he taught his baboon, which was 

 a full-grown one, to pull him along the line on a trolly to the "distant" signal. There the 

 baboon stopped at the word of command, and the man would work tlie lever himself. But in 

 time he taught the baboon to do it., while he sat on the trolly, ready to help if any mistake 



were made. 



The chacmas have for 

 relations a number of 

 other baboons in the rocky 

 parts of the African Conti- 

 nent, most of which have 

 almost the same liabits, 

 and are not very different 

 in appearance. Among 

 them is the Gelada 

 Baboon, a species very 

 common in the rocky high- 

 lands of Abyssinia; another 

 is the Akubis Baboon of 

 the \^'est Coast of Africa. 

 The latter is numerous 

 round the Portuguese 

 settlement of Angola. 

 Whether the so-called 



Fholo by York X- Son, Notting Hill. 



GEIVET MONKEY. 



'This is the small monkey commonly taken about 



with sti-eet-OJgans. 



Flioio by A. S. liudLa-iid d: Sons. 



BONNET MONKEY, AND ARABIAN 



BABOON (ON THE RIGHT). 



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