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KA TUBAL SIS TOBY. 
Their pretty fur is much prized, and the chiefs of the country arrange the hunting parties, treating the 
Monkeys really as beasts of the field. The skins are prepared by a simple process which the natives 
have learned from Europeans ; and they conduct it with great skill. It affords a fur of a jet-black 
colour, covered with long silky hairs, which is used by the natives and Europeans there in ornamenting 
riding saddlery and in military decorations. 
When young, they are of a brown or reddish tint, and tliin grey tints appear preceding the 
intense black ; they then eat buds and shoots and tender leaves, but in adult age they are fruit 
consumers. When m captivity they are sullen e 
morose, and they will remain sulky for many 
months. This the natives know, and there- 
fore they never try to tame them, or to have 
them in their houses. In their shape they 
resemble the last Monkey described, and 
their hind limbs are very long, their haunches 
being high. 
They are rather more than two feet long 
in the body, and the neck appears short ; both 
shoulders and chest are short and largely 
made. The tail is as long as the body and 
head, and is often slightly tufted at the end. 
A mop of hair surrounds the face, and the 
hairs are long and closely pressed, and quite 
conceal the forehead. The nose is peculiar, 
for the bones of it are ridged, as it were, 
and the skin is drawn tight over the open 
nostril (nares), so that there is no soft nose. 
A very considerable space exists between the 
nostrils and the mouth, and the lips are small 
and thin. 
THE LONG-NOSED MONKEY * 
Of all the remarkable oddities of Nature 
amongst the many-shaped Monkeys, the Long- 
nosed or Proboscis-carrier stands pre-eminent. 
In fact, there is nothing in human or ape 
nature like the face of one particular Long- 
tailed Semnopithecus from Borneo. Monkeys 
have flat noses as a ride, some have a ridge 
and a little fleshy mass in which the nostrils 
end ; others, like the Baboon, have dog-like 
noses, and the Americans have wide noses, 
the nostrils opening well at the sides. In 
man there is the Roman nose, the pug, the 
straight, the flat, the broken, the long with 
a large end, and the short with a turn up, 
ut the Nasalis Monkey stands alone amongst the Primates with a nose of vast proportions, which 
rojects far in advance of the mouth, and whose nostrils open underneath. It grows with age, 
nd commences as a small “ turn up,” which still is more fleshy and longer than the nose of any 
lonkey. The newly-born Nose Monkey is a most extraordinary object, reminding the critical eye 
f many youths of weak constitution and defective brains. Its hair is wonderfully parted down the 
liddle, and brushed by Dame Nature down the sides of the head and a little backwards ; the whiskers 
ike the latter direction, and the ears stand out just behind them. It has drooping eyelids, a lougis 
THE NEGRO MONKEY. 
* Semnopithecus nasalis. 
