20 MONKEY. 
per part of the body was of a yellowish green 
tinge, mixed with a little grey. The outsides of 
the limbs grey also. The under parts of the body 
and limbs, whitish. The tail was seven inches 
and two lines long, and of a grey colour. 
MONKEYS. 
In general, monkeys of all kinds, being less 
than the baboon, are endued with less powers of 
doing mischief. The ferocity of their nature 
seems to diminish with their size ; and when taken 
wild in the woods, they are sooner tamed, and 
more easily taught to imitate man than the former. 
More gentle than the baboon, and less grave and 
sullen than the ape, they soon begin to exert all 
their sportive mimicries, and are easily restrained 
by correction. But it must be confessed that 
they will do nothing they are desired without 
beating ; for, if their fears be entirely removed, 
they are the most insolent and headstrong animals 
in nature. 
In their native woods they are not less the pests 
ofman than of other animals. The monkeys, says 
ft traveller, are in possession of every forest where 
they reside, and may be considered as the masters 
of the place. Neither the tiger, nor the lion itself, 
will venture to dispute the dominion, since these, 
from the tops of trees, continually carry on an 
offensive war, and by their agility escape all possi- 
bility of pursuit. Nor have the birds less to fear 
from their continual depredations ; for the mon- 
keys are for ever on the watch to find out and rob 
their nests * and such is their petulant delight in 
mischief, that they will fling their eggs against 
the ground when they want appetite or inclination 
to devour them. 
