whereas, the pitheeos has a fiat visage, like the human • 
Secondly 9 in having long canine teeth ; instead of which 
he pitheeos has them no longer in proportion than those 
of a man. Thirdly ? in its nails, which are neither 
so flat, nor so round ; and in short, it is larger, and of 
a more sullen and untractable disposition than the others. 
It is probably this kind of monkey, w hich Robert Lade 
speaks of in the following terms : “We travelled over a 
great mountain at the Cape of Good Hope, where we 
diverted ourselves with hunting the large apes, with 
which it abounds. I am not able to represent all the 
tractableness of these animals which pursued us, nor the 
swiftness and impudence with which they returned to us 
after we had driven them away. Sometimes they suffer-, 
ed us to approach so near them, that, stopping almost 
close to one of them to take my observations, I thought 
myself certain of securing him, when, taking 3 sudden 
leap, he sprung above ten paces from me, and climbed up 
a tree with the greatest agility. They remained after- 
wards very quiet, and looked at us as if they were 
pleased with our astonishment. There were some so ex- 
ceedingly large, that if they had been of a ferocious 
nature, our number would not have been sufficient to 
secure us from their attacks. As it would have been 
needless to have killed these animals, we made no use of 
our guns ; but the captain, thinking to wound one of 
them, which was seated on a tree, after a long pursuit, 
had no sooner presented his piece, than the animal, pro- 
bably from the remembrance of the execution of some 
of his companions in the same manner, was so greatly 
terrified at it, that it fell almost motionless at our feet, 
and being stunned in the fall, we had not the least trouble 
to secure it. When it revived, however, we had occa- 
sion for all our strength and address to keep it, defending 
itself by biting those who were near it, which obliged w 
to bind our handkerchiefs over its bead* 55 
