WILD HOGS—MONKEYS—MOSQUITOES. 247 
colour, wanders in large herds composed of several 
hundreds. M. Bonpland, when upon a botanical 
excursion, saw a drove of these animals pass near 
him. It marched in a close body; the males be- 
fore, and each sow accompanied by her young. 
The natives kill them with small lances tied to 
cords. At the mission they saw a monkey of a 
new species, which had been brought up in cap- 
tivity, and which every day seized a pig in the 
court-yard, and remained upon it from morning to 
night, in all its wanderings in the savannahs. Here, 
for the first time, they heard of the hairy man of 
the woods, a large animal of the ape kind, which, 
according to report, carries off women, builds huts, 
and sometimes eats human flesh. Father Gili grave- 
ly relates the history of a lady of San Carlos, who 
passed several years with one, which she left only 
because she and the children she had to him were 
tired of living far from the church and the sacra- 
ments. In all his travels in America, Humboldt 
found no traces of a large anthropomorphous mon- 
key, although in several places, very distant from 
each other, he heard similar accounts of it. | 
Flies of various kinds unceasingly tormented the 
travellers; mosquitoes and simulia by day, and 
zancudoes by night. The missionary, observing 
that the insects were more abundant in the lowest 
stratum of the atmosphere, had constructed near 
the church a small apartment supported upon palm- 
trunks, to which they retired in the evening to dry 
their plants and write their journals.* At May- 
y * A similar expedient was tried by a British officer who had 
joined the insurgents under Bolivar, in 1818, “These insects,”’ (the 
