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from me, and ran to hide himfelf in my tenU 
The caufe of this terror was perhaps owing to 
his being afraid that they would carry him 
along with them. He was very ftrongly at- 
tached to me, and I wifli to do him honour 
for this fentiment. In the mean time the reft 
of the apes continued their gefticulations, and 
feemed to force themfelves to exhibit tricks 
and emit cries in order to amufe me, till fa- 
tigued by their noife, and tired of this fpeda- 
cle, I wifhed to procure myfelf another. On 
difcharging a fufee, all my dogs were foon at 
their heels ; and it was very amufmg to fee in 
how light a manner and with what nim- 
blenefs they fled ; they inftantly difperfed 
themfelves, and, leaping from rock to rock, 
difappeared with the velocity of lightning. 
On the 13th I was awakened very early in 
the morning by the cry of a bird which I did 
not, knowt Its tones, which were full and 
well fupported, had no refemblance to any 
thing I had ever before heard. As they ap- 
peared to be really extraordinary, I inftantly 
ftarted up, and got clofe to the bird without 
being perceived ; yet as it was fcarcely day, I 
faw it but very indiftindly through the bufhy 
branches of a tree upon which it was perched, 
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