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 upright, holding in their Hands the Hair of their Neck. They keep in the Woods; they leep in Trees, where they make a kind of Roof that creens them from the Rain. They never touch the Fleh of Animals, but live upon Nuts or other wild Fruits. The Negroes, with whom it is cutomary, when their Way lies through Forets, to light Fires in the Night Time, oberve, that as oon as they et out in the Morning, the Pongos gather about the Fire, and continue there 'till it goes out: for though thee Animals are very dexterous, they have not Sene enough to keep up the Fire by upplying it with Fuel.

They ometimes march in great Companies, and kill the Negroes who happen to be croing the Forets. They even fall upon the Elephants who come to feed in the Places they haunt, and belabour thee Animals o much with their naked Fits or with Sticks, that they make them roar out again, and fly to avoid their fury. The Pongos, when grown up, are never taken alive, for they are then o trong, that ten Men would not be able to mater one of them. But the Negroes take everal