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MONKEY. 
the effect till he had time to reach the garden, 
where he ascended a tree, crying piteously, and re- 
mained there more dead than alive till the operation 
was over. 
Near the Cape of Good Hope these animals are 
numerous, and will sit undismayed upon the tops 
of the rocks, from whence they will throw down 
stones of all sorts and sizes on the traveller who 
is passing beneath. A gun becomes indispensably 
necessary upon these occasions, and is the only 
thing regarded by these impudent beasts, who, 
alarmed at the report, will fly from the rocks in all 
directions. Thunberg says, it is curious to observe 
them in their flight. With their cubs on their 
backs they will often make astonishing leaps up a 
perpendicular rock, and it is but seldom that they 
can be shot. 
It is highly probable that Robert Lade met with 
this species, when he used to traverse the mountain 
in the neighbourhood of the Cape for the express 
purpose of hunting monkeys. As his account is 
expressive of the manners of these creatures, we 
shall proceed to relate it in his own words. {{ I 
can neither describe all the arts practised by these 
animals, nor the nimbleness and impudence with 
which they returned after being pursued by us. 
Sometimes they allowed us to approach so near 
them, that I was almost certain of seizing them ; 
but, when I made the attempt, they sprung, at a 
single leap, ten paces from me, and mounted trees 
with equal agility, from which they looked at us 
