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But look at him on the stage though the best and most intellectual of our actors represent him, and this I can answer for, as the last I saw in the character was Macready your sympathy with Desdemona is at once at an end. The woolly hair spoils all the black face separates him as much from the pure and trusting love of a girl of eighteen, as if he were an ourangoutang.
One of our arms being bared, they expressed the liveliest surprise and admiration at its whiteness, just in the same way in which I have seen the ourangoutang do at the Zoological Gardens. We thought that they mistook two or three of the officers, who were rather shorter and fairer, though adorned with large beards, for the ladies of our party.
But the chief boast of the collection was in the varieties of the Genus Simia, baboons and apes, chimpanzees, with their human visage, mockeries of man, from the dwarf monkeys perched on boughs lopped from the mayor's shrubberies, to the formidable ourangoutang, leaning on his huge club.
"Dress," answered he, "you may caal it fat you please in your country, but I vow to Gad 'tis a masquerade here. No Christian will admit such a figure into his house. Upon my conscience, I wonder the dogs did not hunt you. Did you pass through St. James's market? Bless my eyesaight! you are like a cousin-german of an ourangoutang."
But the chief boast of the collection was in the varieties of the Genus Simia, baboons and apes, chimpanzees, with their human visage, mockeries of man, from the dwarf monkeys perched on boughs lopped from the mayor's shrubberies, to the formidable ourangoutang, leaning on his huge club.
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