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of the tribe. Almost immediately on my return 

 to the party, before I had fully described what 

 had passed, a Syce came to inform us, that the 

 monkey was dead ; we ordered the Syce to bring 

 it to us ; but by the time he returned, the other 

 monkeys had carried the dead one off, and none 

 of them could any where be seen. 



I recollect reading an account of a very similar 

 circumstance in Captain Seeley's description of 

 Elora, and I think as it has occurred at different 

 times, it indicates more than sagacity. 



I have been informed, by a gentleman of great 

 respectability, on whose veracity I can rely (as 

 he is not the least given to relating wonderful 

 stories), that in the district of Cooch-Bakar, a 

 very large track of land is actually considered by 

 the inhabitants to belong to a tribe of monkeys in- 

 habiting the hills near it, and when the natives cut 

 their different kinds of grain, they always leave 

 about a tenth part piled in heaps for the monkeys ; 

 and as soon as their portion is marked out, they 

 come down from the hills in a large body, and 

 carry all that is allotted for them to the hills, stow- 

 ing it under and between rocks in such a manner, 

 as to prevent vermin from destroying it. On this 



