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BA It BART APE. 
walk erect. They inhabit the East Indies, where 
they are seen by hundreds, on the tops of trees. 
The white gibbon is generally considered as 
a variety of the former ; from which it differs, 
in being entirely -white, except the face and hands, 
which are black. 
Magot, or Barbary ape. 
This creature is a remove still farther from 
the human form. Its face is long, and resembles 
that of a bull-dog. Agreeable to this character, 
its canine teeth are both long and strong. Its ears 
resemble those of the human species ; its nails 
are flat. The upper part of its body is of a dirty 
greenish brown, and its belly of a dull pale yel* 
low. It has down on its face, and cheek pouches. 
It has also large prominent callosities on its but* 
tocks, and a small appendix of skin, apt to be 
mistaken for a tail. It w alks on the two bind feet 
at times, but more frequently on all four. When 
erect upon its two bind legs, it is generally two 
feet and a half high ; some are three, others are 
found four feet in height. Apes of this species 
inhabit many parts of India, Arabia, and all parts 
of Africa, except Egypt. They live on vegeta- 
bles, and are said to assemble at times in the 
open plains of India, in vast troops, and if they 
see any of the women going to market, they at- 
tack them, and take away their provisions. Ta- 
vernier, apparently alluding to this species, says, 
that some of the inhabitants of India have an odd 
mode ef amusing themselves at their expence. 
These people place five or six boskets of rice, 
forty or fifty yards asunder, in an open ground 
near their retreat, and by every basket put a num- 
ber of stout cudgels, each about two feet long: 
they then retire to some hiding place, not fa? 
