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moft aftonifliing diftance, and with fucli wonderful ac- 

 tivity and precifion, that it never once miffes its aim : 

 the others one by one, and even the females, with their 

 little ones on their backs, which ftick faft to the mother, 

 follow their leader, and perform the fame leap with the 

 greateft feeming facility and fafety : they alfo are re- 

 markable for climbing up the nebees or natural ropes, 

 with which many parts of the foreft are interwoven. 

 Thefe nebees grow in fuch a manner as to afford the ap^ 

 pearance at firft fight of a fleet at anchor. 



The monkies, I am told, have fometimes two yonng 

 ones fucking, like the human fpecies. I have been a wit- 

 nefs how thefe animals towards fun-fet afcend to the 

 tops of the palm-trees, fome of which are above one 

 hundred feet in heighth, where they fleep fafe in the 

 large diverging branches. The keefee-keejee is fuch a 

 beauiiful and delicate fond creature, that it is by many 

 people kept as a favourite, when it wears a filver chain* 

 Befides its mimic drolleries, it is remarkable for its good- 

 nature and chirruping voice, which pronounces peeteeco' 

 peeteeco without intermiffion. They are eafily tamed, and 

 are taken by means of a ftrong glue made by the Indians, 

 which is fomething like our European bird-lime» 



The other fpecies, of the fliooting of which I have 

 juft given the horrid account, were called by my negroes 

 monkee-monkee. The only fa6ls which I can relate farther 

 of them is, that they are in fize betv/een the two former 

 defcribed, and all over black. One circumftance I ought 



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