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The Little Black Monkey. 
T HIS Monkey is here reprefented of its natural Size, and is one of the lead 
Species I have met with : Its Bite, through its Smallnefs, was no more offen- 
five than a Pinch from a Sparrow’s Bill ; it was very lively and full of Adtion, as moil 
of the Monkey-Kind are. 
Its Eyes were of a Hafel-Colour, the Face of a dark Flefh, the Nofe hardly riling 
at all, the upper Lip, flit like a Hare’s Lip, the Teeth very fmall, like thofe of other 
Monkeys, which nearly approach to human Teeth. The Ears were large in Pro- 
portion, of a fquarifh Figure, of a blackifh Flefh-Colour, and very thinly befet with 
fhort Hairs. The Hair on the Head formed a Peak on the Forehead ; the Face had 
little or no Hair on it; the Head, whole Body and Tail, were covered with foft black 
Hair, rather rough and fhaggy, than of a fmooth Surface ; the Hair on the lower 
Part of the Back feemed to hand ereft, and had a Mixture in it of Golden, or Yellow- 
colour’d Hairs. The Tail is at leaft twice the Length of the Body 5 the Paws (both 
fore and hind) are cover’d with fhort, fleek, yellowifti Orange-colour’d Hairs. It 
had five Toes on each Foot ; its Nails or Claws were not flat as in the greater Mon- 
keys, but fharp and hooked, like thofe of Squirrels, though not fo long ; the Fore 
Paws were not fo Human-like as in fome Monkeys, though it would hold any Thing 
in a Angle Hand, which a Squirrel will not do. 
The above rare, and, I believe, undefcribed Monkey, was brought from the Weft- 
Indies, by the Honourable Commodore Fitzrpy Lee , Anno 1747, and prefented by 
him to the Right Honourable the Countefs Dowager oj Litchfield, by whofe Permiffion 
I made a Draught of it from Life : It was a Female. 
Finding an Account of a very extraordinary Monkey, in a Voyage through the 
Inland Parts of South- America, down the River of the Amazons , by Monfieur 
de la Condamine , of the Royal Academy of Paris, I thought proper to reprint it here. 
See the Abridgment in Englijh, publifhed at London, Anno 1747, P. 83. t£ The 
£c Governor of Para prefented me with a Monkey, which was the only one of its 
“ Kind ever feen in the Country ; the Hairs of its Body being as bright as Silver, and 
<c of the Colour of the fine ft fair Trefies, whilft its Tail was of a fhining Chefnut, 
<c inclining to Black : It had ftill another Singularity yet more remarkable ; its Ears, 
<f Sides of the Face, and Nofe, were of fuch a lively Red, that one could fcarce be in- 
<c duced to believe it to be its Natural Colour. I kept it a Year, and it was yet living, 
“ when I was writing this, almoft in Sight of the Coaft of France , where I pleafed 
<c myfelf with the Thought of bringing it alive : But in Spite of the continual Precau- 
“ tions I took to preferve it from the Cold, the Severity of the Weather killed it.” 
This Gentleman was treating of little Monkeys when he mention’d this, though he 
has not told us the Size of it. 
Lhe 
