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MONKIES, 
by M. de Buff on*, had loft part of its tail; therefore 
is imperfectly defcribed and figured. Well repre- 
fented in Belon. 
Inhabits the hotted parts of Africa and Afta : keep 
in vaft troops : are very fierce and dangerous : rob 
gardens: run up trees when pattengers go by •, fhake 
the boughs at them with great fury, and chatter 
very loud: are excefiiVely impudent, indecent, lai* 
civious: mod deteftable animals in their manners, 
as well as appearance. Mr. Edwards communicated 
to me an account and a fine print '* of one, which 
was fhewn in London fome years ago : it came from 
Mocoo, in the Perfian gulph , was above five feet 
high; very fierce, and untameable ; fo ftrong, as 
eafily to matter its keeper, a ftrong young man : its 
inclinations to women appeared in the moft violent 
manner. A Footman, who brought a girl to fee it, 
in order to teize the animal, kitted and hugged 
her: the bead, enraged at being fo tantalized, 
caught hold of a quart pewter pot, which he threw 
with fuch force, and fo fure an aim, that had not 
the man’s hat and wig foftened the blow, his fcull 
mud have been fractured ; but he fortunately efi 
caped with a common broken head. 
* Engraven by himfelf, but never pnblifhed. I fliould fufpect 
tin's to be the 'Smitten of Burbot , did he not expreisly fay it had a very 
fhort tail. 
Ccrcopithecus 
