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There was only one other specimen with which he need 
detain them, the specimen of the Entellus monkey or sacred 
Hoonuman of India. They had all read of the crowds of monkeys 
to be seen in and around Indian villages, and swarming on 
the banyan trees, where they did just as they pleased, and took what 
they pleased at their own sweet will from every garden and sugar-cane 
field in the country. One writer told them, “ They parade the streets, - 
they mix on equal terms with the inhabitants, they clamber over the © 
houses, they frequent the shops, especially those of the pastrycooks 
and fruit sellers, keeping their proprietors constantly on the watch, 
but no one punishing them for any delinquency.” Another said, 
“ Bangalore, a city of Mysore, is completely hidden by a dense grove 
which is a perfect metropolis of monkeys. Swarming in thousands, 
they chase each other on the roads, caper on the hedges, chatter on 
the boughs, and grin hungrily at everyone who passes with any eat- 
able.” Before concluding a paper which had, as usual, become too 
long, he might add they had occasionally heard of their distant rela- 
tionship to the monkey. It was rather refreshing to have an opinion 
from the other side, and to learn that the monkey didnot see it. Sir 
Samuel Baker tells us that Lady Baker’s pet monkey, “being a far 
more civilized being than the African savages, did not at all enjoy their 
society, but was in the habit of attacking the unprotected calves of 
their legs, and amusing himself by making insulting grimaces, which 
kept the crowd in a roar of laughter. He was quite unhappy if out of 
the sight of his mistress, but he frequently took rough liberties with 
the blacks, for whom he had a great aversion and contempt. Wallady 
had no idea of a naked savage being “a man and a brother.” 
Mr. Wonror thought Mr. Scott had proved, beyond a doubt, 
that the wild cat existed as distinct from the domestic cat ; they heard 
of domestic cats becoming wild, and breeding with wild cats, but he 
thought that this statement had not been sufficiently confirmed. As 
to where their domestic cat came from, they were unable to trace its 
originality, though Dr. Schweinfurth and others placed it in the centre 
of Africa. As to cats transmitting certain peculiarities to their off- 
spring, as the absence of the tail in the Manx species, it was said they 
lost them after the lapse of a few centuries. 
Mr. DENNET pointed out that, according to his experience, 
acquired chiefly in America, a veritable wild cat should possess five 
