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chief. And you muft here take notice alio, that the Ape never eats any thins 

 which he does not very well like the feent of before-hand • and before he fwat 

 lows anything, he fays up his Magazin againft future hunger ; filling Ids bags 

 With provilion, which he keeps till next day. s 



I have (aid, that the BanisH* have a particular Veneration for the Ape- f 

 which I will give you one Example, amdng many, that 1 could bring. Being one 

 day at Amadabat 3 at the Houfe belonging to the Hollanders, a young man of that 

 Nation newly arriv'd to ferve in the Factory, not knowing the cuftom of the 

 Countrey, and feeing a great Ape upon a Tree in the Court, would needs Ihew a 

 piece of activity, or rather a trick of youth, to kill the Ape with a final] Gun 

 I was at Table then with the D«/-c/;-Commander j and we no Jooner heard the 

 blow, but we heard as foon a loud noife of Bamatis, that wait upon the lloiiind 

 Company, who came to complain bitterly of him thut had kiM'd the Ape. Thcv 

 would all have been gone ; (b that the Commander' tad much ado, t md made 

 many excules before he could appeafe them, and obligtdhem to ltay. 



In the Neighbourhood about Amadabat, there areXgreat number of Apes 

 And this is obfervable, that where there are a great iSimber of thole Ani- 

 mals, there arc very lew Crows. For as foon as the y Mvc built their Kelts 

 and laid their Eggs, the Apes get upon the Trees and Aow their Eggs to 

 the Ground. One day returning from <*&*> and depart?* out of Jimada- 

 bat with the Englijh Prelident, who came hither about fome^buiinefs, and was 

 returning to Shy at, we pais'd through a little Forrelt of Tree? call'd ' Mannes 

 fome four or five Leagues from Amadahat ; there we law a''vaft number of 

 great Monkeys, male and female, and many of the females hoiajng their young 

 ones in their Arms. We had each of us our Coach, and thfc Enghfh Presi- 

 dent cauilng his to Itop, told me he had an excellent and very near' Harque- 

 buls, that was prelented him by the Governour of Dawau y and knowing 

 I could aim well, he dclir'd me to try if, at one of thole Apes. One of my 

 Servants, who was born in the Country, making me a lign not to venture 

 I endeavoured to difTwade the Prelident from his defigh $ but it was impof- 

 fible; fo that I took the Harquebufs , and kill'd a female Monkey, who lav 

 itretch'd out upon the Boughs, letting her little ones fall to the orJund. But 

 it fell out as my Servant had forcwarn'd me. For immediately all the 

 Monkeys that were upon the Trees, to the number of lixtv, came down in 

 a great fury, to have leap'd into the Prefiderits Coach > v'here they would 

 loon have ftrangled him, had we not prevented them by clofwg the Shutters, 

 and had we not had a great number of Servants, th.it 'with much ado kept 

 them off. And thoagh they came not to my Coach, yet 1 was very much 

 afraid of my felf j for they purlued the Present's Coach above a League and 

 they were ftout lulty Monkeys. G ' 



From Amadabat to Panfer, codes j , 



From Par.fcr to Mafana, coftes j* 



From Mafana to ChitfMT. coltes T 



Clntpour is a very good City, io called by reafon of the great Trade for painted- 

 Cahcuts, which are called Cbifes: Near which, fbme four or five-hundred paces 

 toward the South, there runs a fmall River. Arriving at Chitpour in one of my 

 Voyage-, I pitch'd my Tent under two or three Trees at the end of a wide-place 

 neer the Town. A little while after I faw four or five Lions appear, which were 

 brought to be tam'd 5 which they told me took them up five or fix months • and 

 their way to do it, is this : Theytye the Lions at twelve paces diirance one from 

 another by the hinder-legs, with a Rope faften'd to a great woodden-ftake let deep 

 in the ground,with another cord about the neck,which the Matter holds in his hand 

 Thele Stakes are planted in the fame Line, and in another Parallel they ftrerch out 

 another Cord as long as the fpace,which the bodies of the Lions fo difpo^'d of as I 

 have defcrib'd, take up. The two Cords which hold the Lion ty'd by the'two 

 hinder-feet, give him liberty to fpring out as far as that long.Cord ; which is a 

 mark to thole that hand to provoke and incenfe the Lions, by throwing Hones and 

 pieces of wood at them, not to venture any farther : The people run to lee the 

 light, and when the Lion, provok'd, gives a fpring toward the Cord, the Mafter 



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