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confifts of a flefh- colour’d naked piece a little raifed, 
having a hole in the middle, and fituated backwards 
between the femora , not quite fo far as the pudenda 
of the females of other fmall quadrupeds. 
This, fir, is the fpecies of monkey mention’d by 
Marcgravius, in the fifth chapter of the fixth book of 
his Hi ft or ia rerum naturalium , &c. where he treats of 
-the quadrupeds and ferpents of Brafile $ but his figure 
bears fo little refemblance to the creature, and his 
defcription is fo fhort, that I believe you will think 
this farther hiflory not unneceffary : however, I have 
tranfcribed his words as follow, to fhew that this 
animal is the fame, that he defcribes. 
Cagui or fagui minor, fenerum animalculum et 
u parvum\ leonemquoque facie referens. Totiuscorpo- 
u ris longitudo circiter fex digitorum eft, caudae autem 
u decern ; capitulum habet parvulum, quod vix po- 
t£ mum minus aequat: nafum exiguum elatum ; ocu- 
u los teneros ; os parvum cum dentibus acutiflimis; 
<c crura manus habent inftar cercopithecorum,quinque 
“ digitis teneris praedita : aures fubrotundas, quas 
tc circumftant pili albi, ordine et cumulatim pofiti 
tc et quafi eleganter effent pexi. Pili autem totius 
iC corporis interius et in exortu rufefcunt, exterius 
tc funt ex albo et fufco mixti 3 cauda autem quafi 
<c ex albo et fufco annulata efh Acutiflimum edit 
“ fonum voce fua : velociflimum eft animalculum in 
11 faliendo : frigoris impatientiffimum. Velcitur pane, 
tc farina mandiocae, atque aliis.” 
What the Brafilians call cagui , the Congenfes call 
pongi 3 which are diftinguifhed into the cagui major 
and 
