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"When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, made me a present of one of these strange animals, which are called by the natives Boggoe: it was a she-cub, of six months' age, but even then larger than a Baboon.
"When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, made me a present of one of these strange animals, which are called by the natives Boggoe: it was a she-cub, of six months' age, but even then larger than a Baboon.
To which the slave very readily replied, 'No, this no my wife; this a white woman this fit wife for you. This unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead under the windlass." William Smith's 'Mandrill, or 'Boggoe, as his description and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee. 'Troglodyta Bontii'; 2. 'Lucifer Aldrovandi'; 3.
To which the slave very readily replied, 'No, this no my wife; this a white woman this fit wife for you. This unlucky wit of the negro's, I fancy, hastened its death, for next morning it was found dead under the windlass." William Smith's 'Mandrill, or 'Boggoe, as his description and figure testify, was, without doubt, a Chimpanzee. 'Troglodyta Bontii'; 2. 'Lucifer Aldrovandi'; 3.
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