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CHAPTER VI. 



SACRED BABOONS. 



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Waterton's Experiment — An Asylum for Birds and Beasts — The 

 Children of the All-Father — Hindoo Ethics — Queer Proteges — 

 Four-handed Demi-Gods — The Bhunder Baboon — Sacred Croco- 

 diles — Eupeptic Pets — Sir Emerson Tennent's Statistics — Inviolate 

 Carnivora — Deva-Ghee — Monkey-Hospital — High-Caste Apes — 

 Strange Bequests — Pariah Monkeys — The Favorites of Brahm — 

 Lunch- Fiends — Dangerous Superstitions — Captain ElphinstoneS 

 Gardener — The Lex Talionis — Sacred Bulls — Their Expensive 

 Privileges — Reverend Quadrupeds — Fraternity and Equality — Dr. 

 Vanjorden's Experience — Baboon Asylums — Punctual Boarders — 

 The Pets of the Dhevadar — Cheek — A Natural Knapsack — The 

 Papio Rhesus — Obstreperous Pensioners — A Council of War — 

 Willy-nilly — The Mahakund — " Pious and Continent Paupers" — 

 Race-Prejudices — A Hindoo Legend — Ravan and the Rishis — 

 The Monkey-Honuman — Honuman's Stratagem — Unforeseen Re- 

 sults — The Sacred Mountain Lake — Incontestable Proofs — A Val- 

 uable Relic — The Spoils of the Virey — Inviolate Guests — The 

 Saints of Khunar — Precautions — Impious Britishers — " Ludere cum 

 Sacris" — Tempting the Saints— A Repentant Sinner — Plethoric 

 Pensioners — Exiled Aristocrats — The Victims of the Sepoy Insur- 

 rection — Destitute Monkeys — City-Monkeys — A Four-handed 

 Tramp — The Upper Ten — No False Modesty — Eccentric Mussul- 

 mans — Their Hatred of Idols — Resolute Mendicants — Kleptomania 

 — The Delhi Bhunders — Race-Instincts — A Boy protected by 

 Monkeys — The Cause of the Indian Insurrection — Interceding for 

 a Pickpocket — Dr. Vanjorden's Servant — Mons. Duvancel's Mis- 

 take — Stuffing a Saint — " Wicked Harbarat's Place" — A Parthian 

 Shot — Mohammedan Allies — Shah All urn's Sentence — Four-handed 

 Convicts — Cemetery Monkeys — Dr. Mackenzie's Scrape — The 

 Limits of Human Patience — A Question of Casuistry — Lecturing 

 a Bull — Gymnastic Exploits . . . . . . . . 132 



