My observations are gone! Some of them certainly are still left; however, I must begin again at the beginning.

You see apes object as much to my labors as sages; there lies the beast on the shelf." Pentaur had laughed at his friend's story, and then lamented his loss; but now he said anxiously: "He is lying there on the shelf?
But you forget that he ought to have been kept in the little oratory of Toth near the library.

He belongs to the sacred dogfaced apes, [The dog faced baboon, Kynokephalos, was sacred to Toth as the Moongod.

Mummies of these apes have been found at Thebes and Hermopolis, and they are often represented as reading with much gravity.

Statues of them have been found to great quantities, and there is a particularly life-like picture of a Kynokephalos in relief on the left wall of the library of the temple of Isis at Philoe.] and all the sacred marks were found upon him.