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Hunamat, (described by Sir William Jones to be 

 the Grecian Pan), and the large monkeys with 

 black faces are now called Hunamans, and are 

 much venerated by the Hindoos ; every other 

 kind of monkey is held by them in veneration, 

 but in a less degree. 



At Bindrabun, (which name, I imagine, was 

 originally Baunder-bund, literally signifying a 

 jungle of monkeys,) a town only a few miles distant 

 from the holy city of Muttra, more than a hun- 

 dred gardens are well cultivated with all kinds of 

 fruit, solely for the support of these animals ; which 

 are kept up and maintained by religious endow- 

 ments from rich natives. There are thousands of 

 monkeys in and about that place, and it is rather 

 strange that I should never have seen among them 

 any of the Hunaman tribe ; they were all small 

 brown monkeys, such as accompany jugglers, and 

 which, I believe, are the most sagacious of any. 

 When I was passing through a street in Bin- 

 drabun, an old monkey came down to the lower 

 branches of a tree we were going under, and 

 pulled off my Harcarrah's turban, as he was run- 

 ning in front of the palanquin, decamped with it 

 over some houses, where it was impossible to fol- 

 low him, and was not again seen. 



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