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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
ZOOLOGY. 
I will precede the enumeration of my zoological 
collections by a short sketch of the main features of 
the Kilima-njaro fauna. 
To begin with onr near kinsfolk, the monkeys. I 
found these creatures much more abundantly present 
in East Central Africa than during my journeys on 
the West Coast. Although Western Africa is pro¬ 
bably better provided with species of quadrumana than 
any other division of the continent, the monkeys are 
much scarcer in numbers and harder to see, possibly 
owdng to the greater density of the forests. 
During eight months on the Congo I onl} r saw 
monkeys twice in a wild state, and that in one place 
only; and throughout my entire stay of sixteen 
months in West Africa I can only remember six 
occasions on which I actually beheld these animals in 
a state of nature. On the other hand, I had scarcely 
left the East Coast, to journey towards Kilima-njaro, 
when monkeys showed themselves abundantly in the 
wilds. 
The first to attract my attention were the baboons, 
probably the species known as Cynocephalus hama- 
dryas , G . Sphinx, and G. habouin. They were gene¬ 
rally found on the outskirts of native plantations, 
where they almost subsisted on the maize and other 
