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of whose observation I can rely. He was on board a 

 steamer where there were two common East India 

 monkeys, one of which was older and larger than the 

 other, though they were not mother and child. The 

 smaller monkey one day fell overboard amidships. The 

 larger one became frantically excited, and running over 

 the bulwarks down to a part of the ship which is called 

 * the bend,' it held on to the side of the vessel with one 

 hand, while with the other it extended to her drowning 

 companion a cord with which she had been tied up, and 

 one end of which was fastened round her waist. The 

 incident astonished everyone on board, but unfortunately 

 for the romance of the story the little monkey was not 

 near enough to grasp the floating end of the cord. The 

 animal, however, was eventually saved by a sailor throwing 

 out a longer rope to the little swimmer, who had sense 

 enough to grasp it, and so to be hauled on board. 



The following account of the behaviour of a wounded 

 monkey seems to suggest the presence of a class of 

 emotions similar to those which we know as feelings of 

 reproach. The observer was Capt. Johnson : 



I was one of a party of Jeekary in the Bahar district ; our 

 tents were pitched in a large mango garden, and our horses 

 were picquetted in the same garden a little distance off. 

 When we were at dinner a Syer came to us, complaining that 

 some of the horses had broken loose in consequence of being 

 frightened by monkeys (i.e. Macacus Orhesus) on the trees. As 

 soon as dinner was over I went out with my gun to drive them 

 off, and I fired with small shot at one of them, which instantly 

 ran down to the lowest branch of the tree, as if he were going 

 to fly at me, stopped suddenly, and coolly put his paw to the 

 part wounded, covered with blood, and held it out for me to 

 gee. I was so much hurt at the time that it has left an im- 

 pression never to be effaced, and I have never since fired a gun 

 at any of the tribe. Almost immediately on my return to the 

 party, before I had fully described what had passed, a Syer came 

 to inform us that the monkey was dead. We ordered the 

 Syer to bring it to us, but by the time he returned the other 

 monkeys had carried the dead one off. and none of them could 

 anywhere be seen. 



This case is strikingly corroborated by the following 



