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of the body a dirty greenifli brown: belly of a dull 
pale yellow: grows to above the length of four 
feet. 
Inhabits many parts of India, Arabia , and all 
parts of Africa , except Aigypt, where none of this 
genus are found. A few are found on the hill of 
Gibraltar , which breed there: probably from a 
pair that had efcaped from the town ; for I never 
heard that they were found in any other part of 
i Spain. 
Are very ill-natured, mifchievous and fierce; 
agreeing with the character of the antient Cynoce-. 
phali: are a very common kind in exhibitions: by 
force of difcipline, are made to play fome tricks; 
otherwife, are more dull and fullen than the reft of 
this genus: affemble in great troops in the open 
fields in India *: will attack women going to mar¬ 
ket, and take their provifions from them. The fe¬ 
males carry the young in their arms, and will leap 
from tree to tree with them. Apes were worfhipped 
in India , and had magnificent temples eredted to 
them. When the Portuguefe plundered one in Cey¬ 
lon , they found in a little golden cafket ** the tooth 
of an ape ; a relique held by the natives in fuch ve¬ 
neration, that they offered 700,000 ducats to re¬ 
deem it, but in vain •, for it was burnt by the Vice¬ 
roy, to flop the progrefs of idolatry. 
* Delians njoy. 83. 
** Linjchottans <voy. 53. In Amadabat are liofpitals for apes, and 
other maimed animals. 'Ttasvernier's <voy. -part II. 48. The fame wri¬ 
ter fays, that they breed in great numbers in India , in the copies of 
Bambws, which grow on each fide the road. p. 94. 
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