monkeys. 
in height, and where certainly no other crea 
ture without wings could follow them , the 
large males bringing up the rear -guard} 
ready to turn with fury upon my hounds it 
they attempted to molest them ; the females 
with their young ones in their arms, or cling 
ing to their backs. Thus climbing, and chat- 
tering, and squalling, they would ascend the 
perpendicular crags. I looked on and watched 
them, interested by the almost human affec 
tion which they evinced for their mates and 
their offspring ; and sometimes also not a little 
amused by the angry vociferation with which 
the old satyr-like leaders would scold me, when 
they bad got fairly upon the rocks, and felt 
themselves secure from pursuit. 
According to other writers, it is sometimes 
dangerous for travellers to pass these baboons 
in the mountains, where they are very nu 
nierous. It is asserted that they will sit un- 
dismayed on the tops of rocks, and not only 
