THE MANDRILL. 
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Its fur is fine, soft and woolly, and of a deep brownish ash 
color ; its eyes are of a beautiful orange color, surrounded with 
black ; its ears are short, cheeks white, and nose black ; tail very 
long, and covered with hair of the same color as the body ; its 
hands and feet are naked, and of a dusky color. 
THE MANDRILL. 
Baboon is found on the Gold Coast and other southern 
1 1 parts of Africa, where it is called by the negroes boggo, 
and by the Europeans, mandrill; it also bears the name of 
the ribbed-nose baboon. It is an ugly, disgusting looking animal, 
and remarkable for its variety of color, its singularity of appear- 
ance, its great strength, and its unconquerable savageness. When 
standing upright, the Mandrill is from three to four feet high. It 
has a projecting forehead, under which are two small and vivid 
eyes, placed so near to each other that their position alone gives 
its physiognomy an appearance of ferocity. An enormous muz- 
zle, indicative of brutal passions, terminates in a broad and 
rounded extremity, of a fiery red color, from which continually 
oozes a mucous humor. The cheeks, swollen and burrowed, are 
naked and of a deep blue color. Bound the neck the hair is 
loDg, on the sides of the head it joins at the top, and the whole 
