WHAT I SAW IN INDIA. 







The Mungoos and Cobra. 



A short time anterior to the recent mutiny in 

 India, I commanded a little detachment of 

 native infantry at Condapilly in the Northern 

 Cicars. From once haying been a town of con- 

 siderable importance, it has dwindled to a very 

 inferior rank ; and the hill-fort, at one period of 

 considerable strength, now presents nothing but 

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they are most ferocious brutes, and armed as 

 they were, and in such' numbers, they could 

 have annihilated us with the greatest ease. 

 There was no help for us, therefore, but tc let 

 the mare proceed at a walk in the rear of the 

 tribe, the members of which, now that we were 

 nearing Deobund, began to chatter frightfully. 

 Just before we.came to the bungalow, they left 

 the road and took the direction of the temple. 

 Fa ! n Avr ; xld we ^have folio wed them, but to do 

 so in tb " uggy Vould have been impossible, for 

 Mie very rough ground aHL 

 d therefore request^ -? 

 ' J report all the^ ? 

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jb'u'nd, from 

 distant. We 

 ^native horsemen, 

 aving a swift mare, 

 ,a at a rapid pace. When 

 >m the bungalow, we over- 

 arge monkeys. I should say 

 there were as many as four hundred ; and each 

 carried a stick of uniform length and shape. 

 They moved along in ranks or companies, just 

 as though they were imitating a wing of a regi- 

 ment of infantry. At the head of this tribe was 

 an old and very powerful monkey, who was no 

 doubt the chief. It was a very odd sight, and I 

 became greatly intWfffced i n the movements of 

 the creatures/^^^Mbttld be no question that 

 they Lad either -ness or some pleasure 



on hand ; and the fact of each carrying a stick 

 H^is to conclude that it was the former upon 

 ^^ they v, ere ben|;.' Their destination wa?, 

 Deobund, where there are 

 ' of nfonkeys fed by a number oi 



ho live near a Hindoo temple, and 

 remonies. They (the mon- 

 out of the road on our ac 

 disturb themselves in any way ; and 

 iend was afraid to drive through their 

 i. or over anv of them ; for, when assailed, 



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 selves ; li 

 capable ' 

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 A frequent 4 

 hough it dc , f v en now and then. % 

 the Goorkha women are as virtuous 

 able as their husbands are honest and V 



AT a surprise party, February 2n:l. 

 following toast was given : "Here's ! 

 who swears, steals arid lies swours of,' 1 ; 

 ing, steals away from bad eonipany, ;ui 

 honest 



QUOTH Smith to Jones, it r 

 You do not get your pretty 

 Quoth Jones, you're wrong ; the pJ 



confound it, 

 My wife is all the time a railing round it. 



