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LI ON-TAILED BABOO!?, 
merous near the Cape of Good Hope,, and go is 
troops among the mountains. 
When they discover any single person resting 
and regaling himself in the fields, if great care -is 
not taken, they will cunningly steal up behind, 
snatch away whatever they can lay hold of, then 
running to a little distance, will turn round, seat 
themselves on their posteriors, and with the most 
arch grimaces imaginable, devour it before the 
man’s face. They frequently hold it out in their 
paws, as if to offer it back again, and then use 
such ridiculous gestures, that, although the poor 
fellow loses his dinner, he seldom can refraisi 
from laughing. 
They are indeed so numerous among the moun- 
tains, as, at times, to render it exceedingly dan- 
f erous for travellers to pass them. They sit un- 
ism aye d on the tops of the rocks, and not only 
roll, but even throw from thence stones of im- 
mense size. A gun, jn these cases, is generally 
of ihdispcnsible use, in driving them to such a 
distance that the stones they throw may do no mate- 
rial injury. In their Sight, even with their cubs 
on their backg, they often make most astonishing 
leaps up perpendicular rocks. And their agility 
is so great as to render them very difficult to be 
killed, even with .fire-arms. 
Lion-tailed or long-tailed baboon. 
The tail of this animal, terminated with a tuft 
of hair like that of a lion, has procured it the 
name here given it. It has a long dog-like face, 
of a dusky colour ; a very large and white or 
hoary beard, (which surrounds the face to a 
considerable distance) and large canine teetli ; its 
nails are flat ; its body is covered with black 
hair ; its belly is of a lighter colour ; it is about 
