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three hospitals for animals, where lame and sick 
monkies, and even those which (without being: 
diseased) chuse to dwell there, are fed and cherish- 
ed, Twice every week the monkies of the neigh- 
bourhood assemble spontaneously in the streets 
of the city. They then mount upon the houses* 
each of which has a small terrace or flat roof, 
where they lie during the great heats. On these 
two days the inhabitants always carefully deposit 
on the terraces rice, millet, or fruit ; for when- 
ever, by any accident, they are prevented from 
doing it, the disappointed animals become so fu- 
rious, thatthey break the tiles, and commit various 
other outrages. 
When the Portuguese plundered the island of 
Ceylon, they found in one of the temples dedi 
cated to these animals, a small golden casket* 
containing the tooth of an ape. This relic the 
natives held in such superstitious veneration, that 
they offered no less than seven hundred thousand 
ducats to redeem it. The viceroy, however, in 
order to stop the progress of idolatry, directed 
it fo be burnt. About three years afterwards* 
a fellow who accompanied the Portuguese am- 
bassador, having got a similar tooth, pretended 
that he had recovered the old one, which so re- 
joiced the priests, that we are informed they pur* 
chased it for a sum of upwards of ten thousand 
pounds sterling. 
This numerous race may he properly divided 
into four sections : viz. 1, Apes ; or such as 
are destitute of a tail. 2. Baboons ; or such m 
have very muscular bodies, and whose tails are 
commonly short. 3. Moekies, whose tails are 
in general long: and lastly, sapajous, or mon- 
kies with what are termed prehensile tails ; .viz. 
as can at pleasure be twisted muni any ©j b* 
