Monkeys have been mentioned in this connection. Moll remarks that
it seems to be an indication of an abnormal interest in monkeys that
some women are observed by the attendants in the monkey-house of
zoological gardens to be very frequent visitors. Near the Amazon the
traveler Castelnau saw an enormous Coati monkey belonging to an
Indian woman and tried to purchase it; though he offered a large sum,
the woman only laughed. "Your efforts are useless," remarked an



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Indian in the same cabin, "he is her husband." (So far as the early-
literature of this subject is concerned, a number of facts and fables
regarding the congress of women with dogs, goats and other animals
was brought together at the beginning of the eighteenth century by
Schurig in his Oynwcologia, Section II, cap. VII; I have not drawn on
this collection.)

In some cases women, and also men, find gratification in the sexual
manipulation of animals without any kind of congress. This may be
illustrated by an observation communicated to me by a correspondent,
a clergyman. "In Ireland, my father's house adjoined the residence of an
archdeacon of the established church. 1 was then about 20 and was still
kept in religious awe of evil ways. The archdeacon had two daughters,
both of whom he brought up in great strictness, resolved that they
should grow up examples of virtue and piety. Our stables adjoined, and
were separated only by a thin wall in which was a doorway closed up
by some boards, as the two stables had formerly been one. One night
I had occasion to go to our stable to search for a ga,rden tool I had
missed, and I heard a door open on the other side, and saw a light
glimmer through the cracks of the boards. I looked through to ascer-
tain who could be there at that late hour, and soon recognized the
stately figure of one of the daughters, F. F. was tall, dark and hand-
some, but had never made any advances to me, nor had I to her. She
was making love to her father's mare after a singular fashion. Strip-
ping her light arm, she formed her fingers into a cone, and pressed on
the mare's vulva. 