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tlon is too much engaged with their own 
fafety to think of that of others. 
When I returned to my tent, I began to 
examine my capture. This fpecies of ape is 
of a middle fize ; its hair, which is pretty 
long, has generally a greenifh tint ; its belly, 
as I have already remarked, is white, and its 
face is altogether black. Its rump is cal- 
lous ; and this part, which is entirely defti- 
tute of hair, as well as the organs of genera- 
tion in the male, is of a fine blue colour. 
At the time when I was examining thefe ani- 
mals, Kees entered my tent, and I imagined 
that he was about to give vent to loud cries, 
when he perceived them, though they were 
of a different fpecies from him; but it ap- 
peared that he was not fo much afraid of 
them wheti dead as when alive : he confidered 
them one after the other, and turned them 
over fevera] times > in all direQ:ions, to ex- 
amine them in the fame manner as he had 
feen me. He was not, I believe, the firfi 
monkey who wiihed to fet up for a naturalift; 
but he was ftrongly impelled by a fecret mo- 
tive much lefs generous than that of acquir- 
ing knovv^ledge. By feeling the cheeks of the 
deceafed, he had difcovered fume treafures ; 
for 
