BONNET MACAQUE.—Macdcus Sinicus. RHESUS.—Macdacus Rhesus. 
their chattering and breaking off the dry branches in leaping about, the rest would also 
get loose, if they were not driven away. 
« 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 its paw to the 
part wounded, covered with blood, and held it out for me to see: I was so much hurt at 
the time, that it has left an impression never to be effaced, and I have never since fired 
gun at any of the tribe. 
«Almost immediately on my return to the party, before I had fully described what 
had passed, a Syce came to inform us that the monkey was dead ; we ordered the,Syce 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. 
“T have been informed by a gentleman of great respectability, on whose veracity I can 
rely (as he is not the least given to relating wonderful stories), that in the district of 
Cooch-Bahar, a very large tract of land is actually considered by the inhabitants to belong 
to a tribe of monkeys inhabiting the hills near it; and when the natives cut their different 
kinds of grain, they always leave about a tenth part piled in heaps for the monkeys. And 
as soon as their portion is marked out, they come down from the hills in a large body, and 
carry all that is allotted for them to the hills, storing it under and between rocks, in such 
a manner as to prevent vermin from destroying it. 
“On this grain they chiefly live; and the natives assert, that if they were not to have 
their due proportion, in another year they would not allow a single grain to become ripe, 
but would destroy it when green. In this account, perhaps, superstition has its full 
influence.” 
The natives are nearly as careful of the Rhesus, as of the Hoonuman itself; and take 
sanguinary revenge on any one who wounds or kills one of these animals. On one 
occasion, two officers, together with their servant, lost their lives in a popular tumult 
caused by the death of a 1 monkey, at which they had thoughtlessly fired. But although 
the monkeys may not be hurt, and are allowed to plunder the crops at their own sweet 
will, the Hindoo cultivators are by no means pleased to see their fields so often devastated, 
and would willingly preserve them from the depredators in spite of their divine, though 
thievish character. 
