THE MONKEY FAMILY. 



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"kill many negroes that travel in the woods." 

 6 ( Many times/' continues he, ' ' they fall upon the 

 elephants, which come to feed where they be, and 

 so beat them with their clubbed fists, and pieces of 

 wood, that they will run roaring away from them. ,, 



Lamentable blotches on the page of African 

 zoology ! Our author further adds, on the testi- 

 mony of the same recounter of pongos belabouring 

 elephants, that " a pongo ape carried off a young 

 negro, who lived a whole year in the society of 

 these animals/' Disagreeable society no doubt, 

 for the poor little human captive ! But, pray let 

 me ask, who cooked its victuals ? apes in the 

 woods, live upon raw vegetable substance, by no 

 means suited to the taste, or calculated to nourish 

 one of our own species. Did it get its daily food 

 at the breast of a pongo wet nurse ? Whilst this 

 poor hapless infant sojourned amongst the apes, 

 perhaps, it even had not once the luxury of regaling 

 itself with a handful of unroasted coffee, or with a 

 scanty slice of raw pork, — luxuries occasionally 

 abundant in our late Eastern expedition. 



Again, our author quotes other travellers who 

 assure us, that "the orang-outangs carry off girls of 

 eight and ten years of age, to the tops of trees ; 

 and that it is extremely difficult to rescue them." 

 Most difficult no doubt ; — can any person, for one 



