. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. •VMAL HisTonr. In the Merchant of Veiuct there is allusion made to the fanciful notion of Monkey—and probably it was Ape—keeping. Shylock has lost his daughter, and Tubal comes to give him news of her fast living, and of Antonio. Titbttl. One of them showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a Monkey. Shylock. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of Monkeys. In a " New History of Ethiopia, being a full and accurate desc
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. •VMAL HisTonr. In the Merchant of Veiuct there is allusion made to the fanciful notion of Monkey—and probably it was Ape—keeping. Shylock has lost his daughter, and Tubal comes to give him news of her fast living, and of Antonio. Titbttl. One of them showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a Monkey. Shylock. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of Monkeys. In a " New History of Ethiopia, being a full and accurate description of the Kingdom of. JVDGMEN-T-SCENE FKOM AN Abyssinia, vulgarly" (writes Broderip), "though erroneously, called the Empire of Prester John, by the learned Job Ludolphus " (1682), there is a gi'and engraving of Apes, with this superscription :— " 1. Scrambling about the mountams. 2. Remoeving great huge stones to come at the wormes. 3. Sitting upon Ant-liills and devouring the little creatures. i. Throwing sand or dust in the eyes of wild beastes that came to sett upon ; Tlie following is illustrated bj' the above :—• " Of Apes there are infinite flocks up and down in the moimtains thereabout, a thousand and more together: there they leave no stone unturned. If they meet with one that two or three cannot lift, they call for more, and all for the sake of the wormes that lye under: a sort of dyet which they relish exceedingly. They are very greedy after Emmets ; so that having found an Emmet-hill, they presently surround it, and laying their fore paws with the hollow downward upon the Ant-heap, as fast as the Emmets creep into their trecherous palmes, they lick them off with great comfort into their- stomaclis; and there they will lye til there is not an Emmet left. They are also pernicious to fruit and apples, and will destroy whole fields and gardens unless they be carefully looked after. For they are -^
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