THE MONKEY FAMILY. 



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One of them alone is capable of producing all 

 these sounds ; and the anatomists, on an inspection 

 of his trachea, will be fully satisfied that this is the 

 case. When you look at him, as he is sitting 

 on the branch of a tree, you will see a lump in his 

 throat, the size of a hen's egg. In dark and 

 cloudy weather, and just before a shower of rain, 

 this monkey will often howl in the day-time ; and 

 if you advance cautiously, and get under the 

 high and tufted trees where he is sitting, you may 

 have a capital opportunity of witnessing his won- 

 derful powers of producing these dreadful and 

 discordant sounds. 



Thus, one single solitary monkey, in lieu of 

 having "others to sit down and listen to him," 

 according to the report of travellers, has not even 

 one attendant. Once I was fortunate enough to 

 smuggle myself under the very tree, on the higher 

 branches of which was perched a full-grown red 

 monkey. I saw his huge mouth wide open : — I saw 

 the protuberance on his inflated throat; and I listen- 

 ed with extreme astonishment to sounds which 

 might have had their origin in the infernal regions. 



Another traveller who also is quoted by our 

 author, says, that these ouarine monkeys, threw 

 dried branches of the trees at him; and so far 

 forgot themselves, that they " voided their excre- 



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