exaggerated tat.es. 
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their young on the’ir shoulders. The howling monkeys, 
which live in society in different parts of America, every- 
" here resemble each other in their manners, though the 
species are not always the same. The uniformity with 
which the arag uatos* perform their movements is extremely 
striking. W lienever the branches of neighbouring trees do 
not touch each other, the male who leads the party sus- 
pends himself by the callous and prehensile part of his 
tail ; and, letting fall the rest of his body, swings himself 
i in one of his oscillations he reaches the neighbouring 
ranc . the whole file perforins the same movements on 
le same spot. It is almost superfluous to add how dubious 
is e assertion of Ulloa, and so many otherwise well- 
imormed travellers, according to whom, the marimondos,+ 
the araguatos aud_ other monkeys with a prehensile tail, 
°4r h Th m 0rder t0 rcach the opposite side 
ot a river.J \\ e had opportunities, during five years, of 
observing thousands of these animals; anl for tMs very 
h44ntJ'h n ° coufi dence in statements possibly 
-I 6 bj rl E Ar° 1X : a " S themselv es, though repeated by 
to theiw t°P r ^ SS1011 \f lf llild beCT1 transmitted 
to them by their fathers. Man, the most remote from civi- 
lization, enjoys the astonishment he excites in recounting 
the marvels of his country. He says he has seen what he 
imagines may have been seen by others. Every savage is a 
hunter, and the stones of hunters borrow from the fmasi- 
nation m proportion as the animals, of wMcli they boast the 
sews isr^B^ 
rolnt thnfto 08 are TT \ 0f s ° metimes their 
Hi t ! may be lighter for flight when pursued by 
r ■ ‘ ™ters. It is said that mothers have been seen 
them a ^ ! 6lr , fr° m their shoulders, and throwing 
ei . own 1° the foot of the tree. I am inclined to believe 
at a movement merely accidental has been mistaken for 
+ TTi, . Sinaia ursina. + Simia belzebuth. 
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