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In the above description I speak of the savage Andamanese in his 
wild state, and not of the specimens to be seen at Port Blair, who have 
become in an infinitesimal degree civilised—that is to say, to the extent 
of holding intercourse with foreigners, making some slight additions to 
their argillaceous dress-suits, and understanding the principles of 
exchange and barter—though as regards this last a friend informs me 
that they have no notion of a token currency, but only understand the 
argumentum ad hominem in the shape of comestibles, so that your 
bargains, to be effectual, must be made within reach of a cookshop or 
grocery. The same friend tells me he learnt at Port Blair that there 
were marriage restrictions on which great stress was laid. This may be 
the case on the South Island ; there is much testimony on the other side 
as regards the more savage Andamanese. 
The forest tribes of Chittagong are much higher in the scale than the 
Andamanese, but they are nevertheless savages of a lowtype. Captain 
Lewin says: ‘‘ The men wear scarcely any clothing, and the petticoat of 
the women is scanty, reaching only to the knee; they worship the 
terrene elements, and have vague and undefined ideas of some divine 
_ power which overshadows all. They were born and they die for ends 
to them as incomputable as the. path of a cannon-shot fired into the 
darkness. They are cruel, and attach but little value to life. Rever- 
ence or respect are emotions unknown to them, they salute neither their 
chiefs nor their elders, neither have they any expression conveying 
thanks.” There is, however, much that is interesting in these wild 
people, and to those who wish to know more I recommend Captain 
Lewin’s account of ‘ The Hill Tracts of Chittagong.’ 
ORDER QUADRUMANA. 
Tue monkeys of the Indian Peninsula are testricted to a few groups, 
of which the principal one is that of the Senopitheci. These monkeys are 
distinguished not only by their peculiar black faces, with a ridge of long 
stiff black hair projecting forwards over the eyebrows, thin slim bodies 
and long tails, but by the absence of cheek pouches, and the possession 
of a peculiar sacculated stomach, which, as figured in Cuvier, resembles a 
bunch of grapes. Jerdon says of this group that, out of five species found 
on the continent there is only one spread through all the plains of Central 
and Northern India, and one through the Himalayas, whilst there are 
three well-marked species in the extreme south of the Peninsula ; but 
then he omits at least four species inhabiting Chittagong, Tenasserim, 
Arracan, which also belong to the continent of India, though perhaps 
