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MONKEYS. 
This appendage answers all the purposes d 
a hand ; the animal throwing itself about frofl’ 
branch to branch, sometimes swinging by tW 
foot, sometimes by the hand, but oftener an^ 
with greater reach by the tail. The preheii' 
sile part of this tail is not covered with haif) 
and forms an organ of touch as discriminating 
as the hand. 
Ulloa tells us that the monkeys of this spe' 
cies, in order to pass from top to top of tW 
lofty trees in their native forests, will form ^ 
chain by hanging down linked to each othef 
by the tails, and thus swinging till the lowest 
catches hold of a bough of the next tre^j 
from which he draws the rest up. By tlif 
same expedient also they are said sometime^ 
to cross rivers when the banks are very steep 
Stedman relates that one day he saw from hh 
barge one of these monkeys come down to 
the water’s edge, rinse his mouth, and appa' 
rently clean his teeth with one of his fingers. 
