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his gun. The animals were all quite familiar with the sight of the 

 weapon, which had often been used to kill rats and vermin near their 

 house, and no alarm was created by its appearance in the keeper's hands, 

 except in the breast of the criminal. The other monkeys sat still, but he 

 hid himself in his sleeping-box, from which he refused to stir. When he 

 was, after tivo or three fruitless attempts, tempted out by the offer of 

 food, and the door of the box shut behind, he fully realized his position. 

 He rushed to and fro, examined every corner of the cage to find a loop- 

 hole of escape, and then flung himself on the ground to await the fate 

 which he saw coming. His comrades showed no emotion, and watched 

 with astonishment the terrified behavior of the condemned prisoner. 



THE BUNDER. 



The Bunder, Macacus rhesus, is another sacred creature, exceedingly 

 reverenced in India. It is of a powerful square figure, thickly haired on 

 the back. His hide forms deep folds about his neck and breast ; its color 

 is greenish with yellow or reddish flocks on the buttocks, white on the 

 belly; the tail is greenish on the upper, gray on the lower surface. The 

 face, hands, and ears are copper-colored, the gluteal callosities bright 

 red. 



The natives of India pay the Bunder as much respect as is shown to 

 the Hulman or Huneman already mentioned (p. 42). Captain Johnson 

 gives an account of his own experience with them, which is here sub- 

 joined : 



" At Bindrabun (which name, I imagine, was originally Baunder- 

 bund, literally signifying a jungle of monkeys), a town only a few miles 

 distant from the holy city of Muttra, more than a hundred gardens are 

 well cultivated with all kinds of fruit, solely for the support of these 

 animals, which are kept up and maintained by religious endowments 

 from rich natives. 



" When I was passing through a street in Bindrabun, an old monkey 

 came down to the lower branches of a tree w.e were going under, and 

 pulled off" my Harcarrah's turban, as he was running in front of the 

 palanquin, decamped with it over some houses where it was impossible 

 to follow him, and was not again seen. 



" I once resided a month in that town, occupying a large house on 

 the banks of the river, belonging to a rich native ; it had no doors, and 



