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for his own, would compel them to carry him for hours together, 

 when he felt himself fatigued, on their frequent hunting and 

 shooting excursions. Like many people of more rational preten- 

 sions, Kees had his taste greatly perverted hy civilization, and 

 could drink off his glass of brandy with the gusto of an accom- 

 plished toper. Of this little weakness, however, his master 

 effectually, though unintentionally, cured him in a very amusing 

 manner. Kees had just received his share of spirits, and was 

 stooping down to drink it out of the plate in which it was usu- 

 ally given to him, when Le Vaillant, who was sealing a letter at 

 the time, adroitly introduced a slip of lighted paper under his 

 chin. Suddenly the whole plate burst into flame, and the terri- 

 fied animal, with a yell of indescribable horror, leaped backwards 

 at least twelve or fifteen feet at a single bound, and continued 

 during the whole time the brandy was burning chattering and 

 gazing intently at a phenomenon which he, no doubt, considered 

 of preternatural occurrence. Kees could never afterwards be 

 prevailed upon to taste spirits of any kind, and the mere sight of 

 a bottle was at all times sufficient to frighten and alarm him. 



In passing to the next section of the Monkey tribe, we are 

 taken to the southern part of the continent of Asia, and to the 

 impenetrable jungles and the wide-spreading woods of Hindostan. 

 The Monkeys of this division are few in number, but of special 

 interest in a zoological point of view, as marking a transition to 

 the Baboons, of which, indeed, they may in part be considered 

 the Asiatic representatives. 



These Baboon-like Monkeys are largo and powerful animals, 

 with stout muscular limbs, low foreheads, heavy, elongated 

 muzzles, and short, stumpy tails, closely resembling the true 

 Baboons of the African continent. One of them the Wanderoo 

 Monkey (Silenus veter), a strange-looking creature, with a black 

 face, surrounded by a flowing mane of long white hairs, and 

 which inhabits the dense woods of Malabar and Ceylon has ac- 

 tually been classed with the Baboons by some writers, while by 

 all it is allowed to occupy a decidedly intermediate position 

 between the two families. 



According to Sir Emerson Tennant the word " wanderoo " or 

 " ouanderoo," is a Cingalese word, signifying Monkey generally, 

 and not any one Monkey in particular ; and it is in great part 

 owing to this ambiguity of the word that so much misconception 



