1807.] 
of their t ee they are alfo able to fwing 
themfelves backward and forward amonatt 
the branches of trees. 
Monkies are feldom known to produce 
young ones, exceptin hot clinates, The 
Barbary apes, however, (Sania inuus of 
- Linnews), which are found wild at Gis 
braltar, bring young ones in great abun- 
dance amonait the imaccelfible precipices 
of the rock. A female of aus ipectes 
bas alfo been known to produce offspring 
ina ftate of captivity, at one of the 
hotels in Paris, <A ftriated monkey 
(Suma jacchus ) brought forth young ones 
in the houfe of a merchant an Lubon, 
and another in that of a lady in Paris. 
Female monkies generally carry their 
young ones nearly in the fame manner 
as neorefles do their children. The little 
animals cling to the back of their dam 
by their hind feet, and embrace the 
peck with their paws. When the’ fe- 
males fuckle them, itis faid that they 
hold them in their arms, and prefent the 
teat as a woman would to a child. 
Monkies ufually live in much more 
axtenfive troops than apes. The troops 
ot putas, or red monkies of Senegal, ave 
reported to amount fometimes to as 
many as three or four thoufand. Some 
naturalifts believe that they form a fort 
of republic, in which a great degree of 
fubordination is kept up; that they al- 
ways travel in good are conducted by 
chiefs, the ftrongett and mott experienced 
animals of their troop; and that, on 
thefe occafions, fome of the largeft mon- 
‘kies are likewife placed in the rear, the 
found of whofe voice immediately {i- 
lences that of any of any of the others 
that happen to be too noify. The cr- 
dérly and expert retreat of thefe crea- 
tures from danger, is an amuling fight to 
Europeans, un accuftomed to the native 
manners of fuch auimals. The negroes 
believe them to be a vagabond race of 
men, who are too indolent to conftruct 
habitations to live in, or to cultivate the 
ground for fubfittence. They fometimes 
cominit dreadful havoc in the fields and 
gardens of perfons who inhabit the coan- 
tries where they abound. 
The. diferent {fpecies of monkies are 
feldom known to imtermix or affociate 
together, but each tribe generally inha- 
bits a difierent quarter, The negroes 
who have not been taught the ufe of 
fire-arms, are faid to kill them by fhoot- 
ing them in the face with arrows. But 
ait often | happeus, when the fapajous are 
fliot, that in the act of failing from the 
tree. they feize hold of a branch’ with 
Monrury Mac, No. 154, 
had the meatles. 
contagious, he requefted that every pols 
Mr. Bingley on the Stratagems of Apes and Monkies. 129 
their tail, and, dying in this’ fituation, 
continue ‘fufpended even for a long time 
after death. When a monkey of fome 
of the larger fpecies is wounded, the reft 
will frequently collect together, ‘and wath 
great ie purfue the hunters to thear huts 
or jodyments. 
it was formerly fuppofed that man was 
the only animal which conld ve infected 
by the {mall-pox and meailes; bat it is 
now ‘afcertained that monkies, kept ia 
houfes where thefe complaints prevail, 
are alfo liable t@ receive the infection. 
In the year 1767, the inhabitants: of 
Saint Germain-en-Laie, near Paris, were 
witnels to a monkey’s catching the fmall- 
pox, by playing with children who were - 
infected, aud the animal bore the marks 
of it for a conhelerbic time afterwards, 
_A circumftance nearly fimilar was ob- 
ferved alfo at Paris, M. Paulet, a me- 
dical man of fome eminence, was called 
upon, in 1770, to attend a perfon who 
As the difeafe was 
fible precaution wight be taken to pre= 
vent it from {pr reading ; and particularly 
that a monkey, accultomed to play with 
the children of the houfe, fhould on no 
account have any cominunication with 
the invalid. The requeft was made too 
late. One of the fick perfon’s fitters, 
and at the fame time alfo the monkey, 
which had been accuftomed to fleep at 
the foot of her bed, was attacked by the 
difeafe. The monk cey, 1 confequence, 
was treated in the fame manner as a 
human fubject. M. Paulet, on examin- 
ing the ftate of the animal’s pulfe, found 
it fo quick that it was fearcely poltible to 
count the pulfations. In the axillary 
artery, thefe- were much more fenfibie 
than in any other; .aed ke declared that, 
as nearly as he could count them, they 
were about five hundred in a lg 
We ought to remark, that this monkey 
was Ape very low ftature, and that, im all 
animals, the thorter they are the quicker 
is their pulfe. Tiefe fat ts, w hich are well 
authenticated, fuihcientiy prove (inde- 
pendently of others) that the fmall- -pox 
and meailes are not difeafes entirely con- 
fined to the human fpecies; but that 
animals, as well as men, are liable to 
receive the infection from them. Na- 
merous inftances have occurred of the 
{mall-pox being communicated to and 
from animals, Thofe from cattle are 
now well known. A fthepherd infeéied 
with the fimall-pox has -been known to 
communicate the difeafe to his theep, 
aud thefe fheep to thoie of another 
Ruck, 
