OUR FOUR-HANDED RELATIVES. 45 



No monkey submits without " back-talk :" my Bud- 

 dha, the tamest macaque I ever saw, would bristle up 

 like a fighting-cock if I thwarted him in his caprices ; 

 at sight of a stick he retreated just out of reach, then, 

 suddenly turning, often gave me a bit of his mind, with 

 a coughing grunt and a look like Faust defying the 

 Demiurgus : " Ich bin's, bin Faust, bin deines Gleichen !" 

 His endearments could not be spurned with impunity ; 

 men and beast had to choose between his caresses and 

 his wrath ; in his younger days especially, he claimed a 

 constitutional right to be petted, and would not stand 

 any slight ; the spretce injuria forma generally threw him 

 into a squealing-fit, and often into such a huff that no- 

 thing short of abject flatteries would restore his good 

 humor. Nor is it easy to frighten a delinquent monkey 

 into an unconditional surrender as long as he can elude 

 your grasp; he is apt to dispute the competence of the 

 court, and has to be arraigned by strategy : salvation by 

 flight seems to be a fixed idea of the simian mind. To 

 run down an ape of the larger species is, indeed, no child's 

 play, even in the open fields and under circumstances 

 that would insure the capture of any other terrestrial 

 animal. During the Dutch expedition against Acheen, 

 Captain Hess, of the Batavian Rifles, procured the skin 

 of an old orang-outang who had been chased a whole 

 day by a troop of natives with clubs and dogs and had 

 fairly exhausted their patience before they could get 

 hold of him. They had surprised him on a high patina, 



