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THE NATURALL HISTORY
        dark-coloured, mixt with red; the ears fiaggy,
        and bright, and reddifl the throat, and breaft
        fhaggy, dufh, and white; the other hair of the
        body black, and white, and fparkling, and
        party-coloured from back to belly; the tayl
        long, and fo coloured i the belly black-haired,
        the thighs white, and red; on each foot five
        toes, not very long; the nayls white, fcarce a
        handsomer to be feen. The Mofchatus the
M-rck.  Brafilians call (aitaja, long, haired, white, and
1. Bra  yellow; roundifl headed, low fore-headed,
1)2 117.  nofe little and flat; tayl-bending, Ihrill voyced,
        and pettifl. I faw one at Gcnerall Warden-
        burgs at Amfterdam. There is another ofthe
        kind darker-haired, like the Zobelines. Of a
        doubtfull kind are the Maca quo in Congo-of a
        wolfs colour; the nofe high and parted, the
        head like a bears, buttocks bald, the tayl bow.
        ed; a foot and fomewhat more long from head
        to tayl; a foot and nine fingers thick. Hee
        cries Hah,hall: the Brafil Cay in Toupinambuti
        is comlnon, little and black, living molt in the
T, C. U l w. woods, and fitting on certain trees,where on a
        thick mnaf grows , like our greateft beans,
        whereon they feed. There is alfo another Gui-
        nee Baboon, grifly, dusk-liadowcd withyel-
        low,almoft like a hares backfmall-headed,and
        long.tailed.
                 CHAPTER             IV.
        Of ht (5;wcephals, (or Doos-bead)
          the PaPio, and the vild Vpalim.
                He firfit hath the name from a Dogs.
(Gcincr.       head. It is called alfo the Tartarian;
KVV4;    _ ,, becaufe it cormes thence. AlfolJ,(no-
                profapon or Dogs-face: And Chuiropi-
        ithekos, orHog-ape. Almoft ofthefliapeofa
Appcnd.l long tayled Monkey, but thicker fet, Itrongcer,
(+4'j'l'  fiercer, and faced like a dog, or a Satyre, as
Anit.   Strabo makes him. Open arled he is. Found
D)2Lcrip- in Ethiopia, and in Arabia from Dira to the
Ufl.
pI'l,',.  Southern corner; and efpecially in the utmolt
SolilIs. promontory; alfb above Dachitnabades, and in
-trabol  the South of Lybia. He feeds as other Apes,
        eating ftone-fruit , he caft away the fhells, and
Scat    parings. They eat alfo flefil boyled, and roaft-
        ed, efpecially the delicateft. They can drink
Vaycc.  wine alfo. They have mnany voyces, and thofe
        rude; Sometimes fhireeking,dhen houling.Orus
1.6cs43. faith they barke; they are foon moved to fury,
        effeminate, luftfull, petulantfiercer then Apes.
Nar':rl. By naturallinflin6t, when dayes and nights are
        of a length , on fet hours, night and day, they
        pifle, and make a noyfe. The Hee in times
        twixt moon and moon, not eats, nor looks any
Tin.   way, but moping looks downward. They are
        faid to congratulate the moon rifing,wherefore
        the Egyptians in their religious rites made
        much of them,to learn from them the heaven-
St, J)H  ly conjunations. Of a fingular wit they are,
GcoT.  comming neareft man, except the Elephant.
1.1 A  In Egypt they write letters, and receive mony
Bel'oiz. of the fpetators for their mafters. Akin to
c L2   there is that Alvarez in his Ethiopian journy
writes of, and another in Clufius. That's as big
as a Bel-wether, and flSaggy as a Lion, going by
herds near Calote. This fiaged, and afh-co-
loured , not fo long tailed as a Baboon, long
fihowted and blunt at the end, bal d buttocked,
blood-coloured , as if flead. The Papio (in Ambr
Dutch Paphon) is great rugged, ugly headed, 11. Digit.
fhort thighed,almoft Fox-tailed, but fhortrand
commonly lifted up, footed like a man,no way
anfwering his height, doting on women. He  ncr
i feeds on apples, pears, and other fruit. The
b .lles' krilly tWO at a rirth.a maleand a female.
The wild Upalim is as big as an Ethiopian Ba- Atnbrofin.
boon, the skin red as fcarlet, fpotted in fome 1.9. C.9.
places,the head round as a ball, the feet round,
and broad, the claws harnmlefe. The Moors
beat the flefli with planks to make it tender,
and eat it. What it feeds on is unknown.
         CHAPTER V.
     Of the ignavus , or SluAI
T ts * Hey are of two kinds; one the Portu- Mark.
        zees call Perdlo Ligero, the little fwift H. Braifl.
        dog by contraries;andFriguiza.Ofthe P2 I'-
        bignes of one of our midling Foxes,  luit!.
,liorr.necked- two fincers lonnir at molt. fmall.
and fomwhat round-headed;narrow mouthed,
toothed as a Lamb, blunt, fmnooth, high,black-
nofed. The eyes finall, black, drowfy, having
no eares; the tayl blunt, like a fugar-loof, on
each foot are three nayls, white and yellow,
crooked, bending, and hollowed. The hair
about two fingers long, afh coloured, badger-
like, but fofter, and whiter. The molt fluggill,
and flow-paced of beafis. He creeps up trees,
and eats leaves, never drinks. Seldome fend
forth any voyce; holds faft what he catcheft,
fears the fmalleft rain. The heart taken out of
the female,flirs halfan houre afier.The paunch
red- f-reaked like beans, into which the navel-
veffells in many fprigs are faftened. They bear
young haired, toothed and clawed. The heart Mar~K.
of the fliee hath two plain ears, hollow. In the
ftomack the upper-mouth is two fingers croffe
from the gullet, and where the opening ufes to
be, is a gut a fpan long, but hath no paflage.
In the ftomack is plainly feen green matter of
leaves. Two paps are on the breaft. Tough
of hide. So lively, that, if all the guts be taken
out, it ftirs, and draws the feet together.  De
Laet, who faith, hee faw one alive, faith, the
neck is longer, as we have made it. He clings
fo faft, that he loofes hold, and life together.
Hermaneus faith, he in a whole day cannot Hit, 1.9.
move fifty paces forward. By night he is heard, c. T
and the latter Syllables ftill lower then the
former. He flays fometimes in a tree twenty
dayes without food, and is thick- fighted.
Another of the kind, called Hag, hath an Lerius.
Apes face, a rough-ihaged skin, hairy.thighs,
claws, on each foot three, and thofe {harp, and
long, is eafily tamed, when taken.
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