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MONKEYS. 
environs of Mocha, and the east coast of the 
Red Sea ; with this exception, we are not ac- 
quainted with any species of baboon that is 
not of African origin. Of its habits and man- 
ners we are furnished with no particulars ; but 
they probably resemble those of the ursine 
baboon of South Africa, which appears to be 
a variety of this species, and of which we have 
copious accounts. 
The ursine baboon, when full grow'n, is of 
the size of a very large Newfoundland dog, and 
possesses great strength. It resembles the 
dog in the shape of its head, and is covered 
with shaggy, brownish hair, except on the face 
and paws, which are bare and black. On 
level ground it goes on all fours ; but, among 
rocks and precipices, it uses its hinder feet 
and hands as a human being would do, only 
with an inconceivably greater boldness and 
agility in clambering up the crags and spring- 
ing from cliff to cliff. 
