NATURAL El STORY. 
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some other kinds, but there are no evidences of the existence of the great fleshy and gristly mass 
which is stuck on in front in life. This swelling of the front of the face in the skull slightly reminds 
us of a greater one which characterises the Dog-faced Baboons, and, moreover, the similarity is 
increased by the fact that the upper eye (canine) tooth presses the first tooth behind the lower eye 
tooth backwards. These little peculiarities are inherited gifts, for the Nasalis and the Baboon 
probably came from a common ancestor. Perhaps the great fleshy nose of the Semnopithecus Nasalis 
is a relic of the long face of the ancient Baboon. Shorten the bones of the Baboon’s nose, and 
leave the soft parts, and there would be left something like the queer features of the Monkey now 
under consideration. 
One must be struck with the long back-bone of this Monkey, its single backward bend, and the 
long way the ribs seem from the hips ; making it like the Gibbons, and very unlike the other great 
Apes, which have their last ribs close to their hips. The tail is very long, and starts well up the back, 
that is to say, its origin at the end of the sacrum bone is some distance from the haunches, on which 
the creature sits. These last are rounded so 
as to afford comfortable rest, especially as 
they are covered by the callosities or pads. 
The feet are long from the metatarsal bones, 
and the great toe-thumb is accompanied by a 
long, strong, backward-projecting, and curved- 
up heel-bone. 
The Dyaks call this Monkey the Kaha, 
for this is the sound which they make when 
in companies in the woods by the side of the 
swamps and jungles. There they live a 
restless life at sunrise and sunset, being 
quieter in the heat of the day, and crying out 
at each other. They have fine voices, thanks 
to their strength, and perhaps to their air 
sac in their neck, which may render oral 
sounds more resonant. They are active 
creatures, and bound from tree to tree, clear- 
ing from fifteen to twenty feet with ease. 
Being very like extremely ugly hu- 
manity, the Dyaks consider them as de- 
graded men, and they give an excellent 
reason for their human ancestors having left their habits and dwellings. They did not like to pay 
taxes, so they took to the woods ! 
It is said that when the ambassadors of Tippoo Saib came to Paris to urge the French to take up 
his cause against the British in India, they were immensely delighted with the Monkeys with the 
great noses which were preserved and stuffed in the museum, acknowledging them as compatriots. 
But as a matter of fact, specimens of this Monkey never had been and never could have been seen 
by these men, for it does not inhabit the peninsula of India. But it is a fact that when some 
specimens came over to Paris, preserved in spirits, they excited a wonderful commotion amongst the 
savans. Broderip was present, and saw one drawn forth, “ looking like one of those horrible female 
fiends sometimes pictured in old woodcuts. 
“ Not uglier follow the night hag.” 
A celebrated French naturalist, who was present at the opening of the casket which contained 
this zoological jewel, was in raptures, and as the bust emerged he uttered an exclamation significatory 
of her paternity. We looked in vain for the young imps, which had probably escaped when their poor 
barrelled-up mother fell. It must be startling to look round in the wilderness of Borneo and behold 
one of these horrible visages peering, Zamiel-like, from behind the trunk of some dark tree i Hie 
impression left on the mind, however, is rather of the comical than of the terrible in its nature after 
