290 ANECDOTE OF THE APES OF GALAM. 
less strength, is much more dangerous to man. I was told 
that a sailor who was leaning over the side of a boat, was 
seized by a crocodile, and dragged to the bottom of the water 
where he devoured him. 
The trees which shade the Senegal in the country of 
Galam, serve as a retreat to a multitude of apes, which perch 
on the extremities of the branches, as if for the pleasure of 
seeing vessels pass by. I shall relate an anecdote of these 
animals which appeared to me to be very extraordinary, never- 
theless I have no reason to doubt its truth, because I received 
it from two Marabouts, whom I have always known to be 
men of great veracity. 
A woman going with millet and milk to a vessel from 
St. Louis, which had stopped before a village in the country 
of Galam, was attacked by a troop of apes, from three to 
four feet high ; they first threw stones at her, on which she 
began to run away ; they ran after her, and having caught 
her, they beat her with sticks until she let go what she was 
cariying. Bruised by the blows she had received, she re- 
turned to the village and related her adventure to the principal 
inhabitants, who mounted their horses, and followed by their 
dogs, went to the place which served as a retreat to this troop 
of apes ; they fired at them, killed ten, and wounded others 
which were brought to them by their dogs ; but several 
Negroes were severely wounded in this encounter, either by 
the stones hurled at them by the apes, or by their bites ; the 
