MONKIES. 
e and fro, making mouths at me. The females 
€ with their young ones are much troubled to leap 
4 after the males, for they have commonly two, 
* one Hie carries under her arm, the other fits on her 
4 back, and claps its two fore paws about her neck: 
‘ are very fullen when taken * and very hard to be 
6 got when fiiot, for they will cling with their tail 
4 or feet to a bough, as long as any life remains *, 
4 when I have fhot at one, and broke a leg or arm, 
4 I have pitied the poor creature to fee it look and 
4 handle the broken limb, and turn it from fide to 
4 fide . 5 
They are the moft aftive of monkies, and quite 
enliven the fprefts of America: in order to pafs from 
top to top of lofty trees, whofe branches are too dif- 
tant for a leap, they will form a chain, by hanging 
down, linked to each other by their tails, and Twing¬ 
ing in that manner till the ioweft catches hold of 
a bough of the next tree, and draws up the reft * 
and fometimes they pafs ** rivers by the fame-ex¬ 
pedient. 
Are fometimes brought to Europe : are very ten¬ 
der, and feldom live long in our climate: Mr. 
Brookes had one or two, which, as long as they con¬ 
tinued in health, were fo active, and played fucj^ 
tricks, as to confirm the account of voyagers. 
* Wafer's <voy. in Damper> III. 330. 
** Vlha.l. 113. 
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