A MONKEY BARDOLPH. 267 



it swells the concerts of the Bornean woods. The name Proboscis 

 Monkey is derived from its enormously developed nasal appendage, 

 which, wrinkled and pendulous when the animal is unexcited, is 

 immediately, on the slightest provocation, distended, and made 

 to stand out in a huge facial promontory, which gives its owner 

 an expression at once ludicrous and horrible. These animals 

 climb and walk far more deliberately than other monkeys, and in 

 sleeping squat on their hams, like the Dyaks, and lean the head 

 forward on the breast. They associate in large troops, and 

 morning and evening assemble along the borders of the wooded 

 rivers, to gambol among the higher branches of the trees, holding 

 their noses, if the natives may be believed, the while they leap 

 from branch to branch. The Kahan has never yet been brought 

 to Europe alive ; but the time will come, no doubt, when this 

 veritable Bardolph of the Monkey tribe will find his way to our 

 shores, and figure for a time as first "lion" in the Regent's 

 Park. 



Not less interesting than the Kahan, and belonging to the 

 same t<rccharacteristic section of the Monkey tribe, is the Hoonu- 

 man, or Sacred Monkey of India (Semnopithecus entellus"), which, 

 from the remotest antiquity, has been regarded with extreme 

 veneration throughout a great part of Hindostan. The 

 Hoonuman is one of the largest and most handsome of the 

 Asiatic Monkeys ; its general colour is a pale yellow, while its 

 hands, feet, and face are black, the latter surrounded by a circle 

 of long white hairs. The author of the volume on Monkeys in 

 the " Library of Entertaining Knowledge," tells us that " Splen- 

 did and costly temples are dedicated to these animals ; hospitals 

 are built for their reception when sick or wounded ; large for- 

 tunes are bequeathed for their support ; and the f laws of the 

 land, which compound for the murder of a man by a trifling fine, 

 affix the punishment of death to the slaughter of a Monkey. Thus 

 cherished and protected, the Hoonuman abounds over every part of 

 India, enters the houses and gardens of the natives at will, and plun- 

 ders them of fruit and eatables without molestation ; the visit is 

 even considered an honour, and the Indian peasant would consider 

 it an act of the greatest sacrilege to disturb or drive them away. 

 They generally take tip their residence in the topes or groves of 

 trees, which the people plant round their villages to screen them 

 from the too ardent rays of the sun ; but they are permitted to 



