SACRED BABOONS. 



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Hyderabad, feeds about two hundred regulars and fifty 

 or sixty occasional guests, the latter being visitors from 

 the river-bungalows, whose summer vegetation they 



THE PETS OF THE MAHAKHUND. 



generally prefer to the somewhat arid neighborhood 

 of the mahakhund. Breakfast is at eight A.M. sharp ; 

 but the dhevadar beats no gong : his boarders are sure 



