142 HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. 



" And bow do you, who own farms and gardens, treat 

 them when they come to devastate them?" 



Smilingly he replied, '' I cannot afford to support them, 

 and so drive them oft' with a stick, — but I have to do it 

 myself and at night." 



During the great war in Ceylon, the warrior apes of 

 Annouma are reported to have taken, as servants and 

 camp followers, numerous macaques, which differ in several 

 ways from their reputed masters. Their most interesting 

 characteristic is their imitativeness, and it is unwise to do 

 anything in their presence that you are unwilling they 

 should repeat. I saw one of them imitate his mistress, 

 whom he had watched plucking and boiling fowls, by 

 pulling out the feathers of a pet paroquet_, in spite of 

 the latter's beak and claws, and putting him alive into 

 the teakettle, where he was afterward found by the 

 cook! 



