24 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



the females, who were carrying their young. On Jacko there 

 was, in 1885, a large troop of these animals, and they did con- 

 siderable damage in the kitchen gardens of the mountain resi- 

 dences, so that the gardeners had to keep a sharp look-out, 

 and fire at them occasionally. When he w^as staying at Mr. 

 Hume's beautiful place at Simla in 1885, it was often necessary 

 to drive off the Monkeys, and as one or two had been wounded 

 by the head-gardener, the fakir who lived at the top of Jacko 

 was much offended. This man had tamed the Monkeys to 

 such an extent that, when he called them, the trees instantly 

 began to move in all directions with the approach of numbers 

 of these animals hastening to him for the peas which he had 

 in readiness for them. They clustered round him, and though 

 they would not allow strangers to stroke them, they came within 

 arm's length and picked up their food. One patriarch, who 

 remained for some time after the tribe had disappeared into 

 the trees, was called the " Subadar," and wore quite a venerable 

 appearance. Mr. R. Svvinhoe has, in the " Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London," given the following curious 

 Chinese observations, extracted from the "Chinese Gazetteer," 

 in reference to this species, which is often called the Hainan 

 Rock-Monkey: " How (or Monkey). The She-Show ('Notes 

 on Animals ') states that the Monkey has no stomach, but 

 digests its food by jumping about. According to ancient 

 authors, Kiung Chow abounds in Monkeys, and its people make 

 a trade by selling young ones." 



" About the jungles of Nychow (S. Hainan) these Monkeys," 

 says Mr. Swinhoe, "were very common. On our landing, 

 abreast of the ship w^e saw a large party of tl^em on the beach, 

 but they at once retired into a grove above high-water mark. 

 We watched them running along the bouehs of tlie trees and 



