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THE following account of an incident in the early life of a South African baboon may not be out of place in your journal The person who witnessed it was a very trustworthy native attached to Bishopstowe, Natal, and who is employed from time to time to get game for the house. He used to find it an agreeable addition to this duty to collect objects of natural history for the cabinet as well as for the table. He was fully alive to, and took a keen interest in, what went on among the animals of all kinds, and was much struck with what he saw take place one day at the bottom of a little iDonga, or dry watercourse, over the brink of which he peeped, on the slope of a table-mountain, the grand object that lies in the front of Bishopstowe, some twelve miles distant.
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COLENSO, F. Intellect in Brutes. Nature 21, 251 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021251a0
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