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The Animal-Lore of Shakspeare’s Time. 
CHAPTER I. 
The Monkey order is generally spoken of in mediaeval 
times under the three broad names of ape, 
^Monkey dS baboon, and monkey or marmoset, though 
various kinds are described by the early 
explorers of Africa and South America under the native 
names. 
The chief sources from which we derive our informa¬ 
tion respecting the different species of animals found in 
various parts of the globe are the collections of travels 
made by Hakluyt and Purchas. The Rev. Samuel 
Purchas published the first volume of his work in 1613, 
and the last four volumes in 1625. He gave to his com¬ 
pilation the long title of Purchas his Pilgrimage; or 
Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all 
Ages and Places. He appears to have been more credulous 
than Hakluyt, or perhaps he took a stronger interest in 
natural history, for to him we are chiefly indebted for 
strange adventures and marvellous descriptions of animal 
life. 
One of the most intelligent of the pilgrims whose 
peregrinations are recorded in this collection was Andrew 
Battel 1, an English sailor, who was taken prisoner by the 
Portuguese and sent to Angola, on the West Coast of 
Africa, where he lived nearly eighteen years. This 
writer gives a tolerably correct account of the largest 
