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CHAP, large ourang-outang to the very fmall farcawinkee. The 

 t y^^^l* , former, however, I never have feen, nor heard defcribed, 

 while I was in this country ; as for the latter, I fliall de- 

 fcribe him on another occalion, and fhall only, for the 

 prefent, give an account of thofe v/hich I met with 

 on this cruife. That which I fhot the fecond inftant is 

 what is called in Surinam micoo : it is nearly the fize of 

 a fox, and of a reddilh grey colour, with a black head 

 and very long tail. Thofe I killed on the tenth were in- 

 deed exceedingly beautiful, and much more delicate when 

 dreffed than the former : they are called the keefee^keefee 

 by the inhabitants, are about the lize of a rabbit, and 

 moft aftonifliingly nimble. The colour of their body is 

 reddifli, and the tail, which is long, is black at the ex- 

 tremity ; but the fore-feet are orange colour. The head 

 is very round, the face milk white, with a round black 

 patch in the middle, in which are the mouth and the 

 noftrils ; and this difpofition of the features give it the 

 appearance of a mafk : the eyes are black, and remark- 

 ably lively. Thefe monkies we faw daily pafs along the 

 lides of the river, fkipping from tree to tree, but moftly 

 about mid-day, and in very numerous bodies, regularly 

 following each other like a little army, with their young 

 ones on their backs, not unlike little knapfacks. Their 

 manner of travelling is thus : the foremoft walks to 

 the extremity of a bough, from which it bounds to the 

 extremity of one belonging to the next tree, often at a 



