The Forest Life of the Simiæ--Excellent Climbers, Bad Pedestrians--Similitude and Difference between the Human Race and the Ape--The Chimpanzee--Chim in Paris--The Gorilla-- The Uran--The Gibbons--The Proboscis Monkey--The Huniman-- The Wanderoo--The Cercopitheca--A Plundering Party--Parental Affection of a Cercopitheca--The Maimon--‘Happy Jerry’-- The Pig-Faced Baboon--The Derryat--Wide Difference between the Monkeys of both Hemispheres--Distinctive Characters of the American Monkeys--The Stentor Monkey--The Spider Monkeys--The Laïmirit--Friendships Between Various Kinds of Monkeys--Nocturnal Monkeys--Squirrel Monkeys--Their Lively Intelligence--The Loris and Makis 496 CHAPTER XLI. THE AFRICAN NEGROES. Causes of the Inferiority of Negro Civilisation--Natural Capabilities of the Negro--Geographical Formation of Africa-- Its Political Condition--Physical Conformation of the Negro-- Fetishism--The Rain-Doctor--The Medicine-Man--Religious Observances--Gift-Offerings--Human Sacrifices--Ornaments--The Peléle--The Bonnians--Their Barbarous Condition--The Town of Okolloma--Negroes of the Lake Regions--The Iwanza--Slavery--A Miserable Group 518 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE CHROMOXYLOGRAPHS. Primitive Forest _Frontispiece_ Savannah on Fire 11 Cereus Giganteus 135 Lum Tree 144 Termite Hills 242 Flamingoes 360 Condor-catching 378 Tiger 454 WOODCUTS.