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from the (marine (s. guariba) and the alouate 

 roux (s. seniculus, old man of the woods). It's 

 eye, voice, and gait, denote melancholy. I have 

 seen young araguatoes brought up in Indian 

 huts. They never play like the little sagoins, 

 and their gravity was described with much 

 simplicity by Lopez de Gomara, in the begin- 

 ning of the sixteenth century. " The Aranata 

 de los Cumaneses" says this author, " has the 

 face of a man, the beard of a goat, and a 

 grave behaviour, honrado gesto." I have already 

 observed, in another part of this work, that 

 monkeys are more melancholy in proportion as 

 they have more resemblance to man. Their 

 petulant gaiety diminishes, as their intellectual 

 faculties appear to increase *. 



We stopped to observe the howling monkeys, 

 which, to the number of thirty or forty, crossed 

 the road, by passing in a long file from one tree 

 to another upon the horizontal and intersecting 

 branches. While this new sight fixed our at- 

 tention, we met a troop of Indians going toward 

 the mountains of Caripe. They were quite 

 naked, as are generally the natives of this 

 country. The women, laden with pretty heavy 

 burdens, closed the march ; the men were all 

 armed, even the youngest children, with bows 

 and arrows. They marched in silence, their - 



* Obs. Zoolog., vol. i, p. 329 and 355, pi. 30. 



