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content with the hunting-grounds which were sufficient 

 for our needs when we first settled down by the banks of 

 the Umgeni River in Natal. As our numbers increased 

 food became scarce, so we made an attack on a neighbouring 

 clan and defeated them. After a time a sort of land-hunger 

 or desire for more territory seized us, and we gave battle 

 to another clan. After a fierce fight we also defeated them 

 and took their land. We at length succeeded in driving 

 off all the other clans in our neighbourhood, until we owned 

 all the territory for many miles around. It is a curious 

 thing, but you humanfolk do just the same. I suppose 

 you have inherited the instinct from us. First, when your 

 ancestors were wild monkey-like men, living in caves and 

 roaming about in search of berries, roots, herbs, and creatures 

 to kill for food, you lived in clans for protection as we now 

 do. Then, as your numbers increased, you grew bold and 

 quarrelled with your weaker neighbours, and robbed them 

 of their hunting-grounds. Some of the tribes of these 

 wild men grew very large — so large and strong that other 

 tribes could not stand against them. In time, these tribes 

 became what you to-day call nations. Each nation still 

 has its particular hunting-ground, and if any of the folk 

 of any other nation dare to trespass and try to take any of 

 it you all turn out and fight. So you see you do just as we 

 do, only on a larger scale, that's all. 



The following are the names of some of the Guenon 

 monkeys : — 



The Malbrouck monkey of Western Africa ; the Vervet 

 monkey of South Africa ; the Grivet monkey of North- 

 Eastern Africa ; the Black-browed Green monkey of West 

 Africa ; the Patas monkey of Senegambia ; the Sykes monkey 

 of East Africa ; the Black-bellied monkey of West Africa ; 

 the Mona monkey of West Africa ; the Moustache monkey 

 of West and Eastern Equatorial Africa ; the Hocheur 

 monkey of Liberia and the Cameroons ; the Lesser White- 



