Note 36 — Chapter XVIII · ZOOLOGY.
Reading edition
The natives of many parts of Africa greatly esteem the baboon as an article of food. Vide the paper on the Cameroons, by the Rev. George Grenfell, in the “Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,” October, 1882, p. 590. Doubtless the great resemblance to human flesh is not held as a drawback.