quentily hanging to the branches o f the trees ; for when c
fo employed, it ferves the animal as a fifth limb. Moft
Wonderful is the agility of thefe monkies in fwinging
from one .'tree - to another, but I never faw them leap.
Their throwing Ihort fticks and exfcrements feems to be
no more than a mimicking o f the human actions
without, any purpofe, as they neither have ftrength to
throw tfajvmor dektferily to hit their obje<3;g, and i f they
Befoul them it i§ by accident only*. * But what appears
peculiarly remark-able As, that when one is hurt by a
mulket or arrow, the poor animal inffcantly claps its hand
on the wound» looks at tkg blood, ah** M ilj
piteous lamentations afcends to the very ,top of the tree,
in which he is afiifted by his companions; where, hanging
bythe tail, he Continues, to he wall his fate, till by the
lofs of blood he grows totally faint, and drops down dead
at the feet o f his adverfaries.
It is not £b extraordinary that one o f this fpecies, when
wounded, fhould be afiifted by his companions in climbing
; but that they fhould have fo much knowledge in
botany, as to procure vulnerary herbs, and chew and
apply them to the wound, is what I cannot credit, though
it-is fo confidently aflerted by a late traveller : and. as to
the' aftiftarice they give nrpaffing a river,’’by holding each,
other’s tails, and fwinging till the lowermoft is thrown
up to the branch ©f a high tree, though I have a great
opinion of AJlloa, who relates it, and has given a print of
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