THE MONKEY TRIBE. 1 7 



call for her companions, beginning slowly, and ending 

 by two barks, which sounded like the tenor E and its 

 octave, at which time the poor thing became evidently 

 agitated. She was, generally speaking, very gentle, and 

 much preferred ladies to gentlemen ; but if her confidence 

 had been once acquired, she seemed to place as much re- 

 liance on a man as she bestowed unsolicited on a woman. 



Monkeys in India are more or less objects of super- 

 stitious reverence, and are consequently seldom or ever 

 destroyed. In some places they are even fed, encouraged, 

 and allowed to live on the roofs of the houses. If a man 

 wish to revenge himself for any injury committed upon 

 him, he has only to sprinkle some rice or corn upon the 

 top of his -enemy's house or granary, just before the 

 rains set in, and the monkeys will assemble upon it, eat 

 all they can find outside, and then pull off the tiles to 

 get at that which falls through the crevices. This of 

 course gives access to the torrents which fall in such 

 countries, and house, furniture, and stores are all ruined. 



The large Banian trees of the Old World are the 

 favourite resorts of monkeys and snakes; and the former, 

 Avhen they find one of the latter asleep, seize it by the 

 neck, scramble from their branch, and dash the reptile's 

 head against a stone, all the time grinning with rage. 



The Budeng of Java(Semnopithecus Maurus) abounds 

 in the forests of that island, and flies from the presence 

 of man, uttering the most fearful screams, and using 

 the most violent gestures ; but this is not a frequent 

 antipathy, and there is an amusing account of the 

 familiarity which monkeys assume with men, written 

 by a traveller, who probably was not a naturalist, for 

 he does not give the technical appellation of any of the 

 species with which he meets in India. From what he 

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