. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . CHAPTER 1 HUNTING MONKEYS. modem zoologist* has, nolinaptly, applied the termCheiropeds or hand-footed animalsto monkeys ; and, indeed, strictlyspeaking, they can hardly becalled quadrumanous or four-handed. Their extremities, ad-mirably fitted for grasping andclimbing, as far as their arborealhabits require those actions, fall short—how very far short!—ofthat wonderful instrument which surrounds a being born one ofthe most helpless of all creatures, with necessaries, comforts, andluxuries, and enables him to embody his imaginings in worksalmost divi
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . CHAPTER 1 HUNTING MONKEYS. modem zoologist* has, nolinaptly, applied the termCheiropeds or hand-footed animalsto monkeys ; and, indeed, strictlyspeaking, they can hardly becalled quadrumanous or four-handed. Their extremities, ad-mirably fitted for grasping andclimbing, as far as their arborealhabits require those actions, fall short—how very far short!—ofthat wonderful instrument which surrounds a being born one ofthe most helpless of all creatures, with necessaries, comforts, andluxuries, and enables him to embody his imaginings in worksalmost divine. We look in vain among the most perfectly-formed of the anthropoid apes for the well-developed opposablethumb of the human hand—that great boon, the ready agent ofmans will, by means of which he holds dominion over the fish Mr. OsilbF. HUNTING MONKEYS. 155 of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every livingthing that moveth upon the earth. The hands of the monkeys are at best but half made up,and they are generally more or les
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