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« battoons about two foot long, and two inches about; then 

 *' they retire and hide themfelves ; prefently they fliall fee the 

 " npes on both fides of the way defcend from the tops of the 

 " bamboos, and advance towards the bafkets which are full of 

 " rice. They are about half an hour fliewing their teeth one 

 " at the other before they come near the bafkets ; fometimes 

 ** they advance, then retreat again, being loath to encounter. 

 *' At length the female baboons, who are more courageous 

 *' than the males, efpecially thofe that have young ones, which 

 ** they carry in their arms as women do their children, venture 

 ** to approach the bafkets, and as they are about to put in their 

 " heads to eat, the males on the one fide advance to hinder 

 <* them. Immediately the other party comes forward, and thus 

 ** the feud being kindled on both fides, they take up the bat- 

 ** toons that lie by the balkets, and thralli one another in good 

 " earneft. The weakeft are con drained to fly into the woods, 

 <* with their pates broken and their limbs maimed, w^hile the 

 " matters of the field glut themfelves with rice. Though it 

 " may be when their bellies are full, they will fuffer fome of 

 " the female party to come and partake with them." 



The dogs of India are generally of the currilh kind, with Dogs. 

 lliarp eredt ears and pointed nofes. Thofe kept by l\i& pariars, 

 or poorer people, are fmall. Thofe kept by the Poly gars refem- 

 ble the others in form, but are of a confiderable fize, and fmooth 

 haired, and are ufed by their mafter in the chace of the wild 

 boars, and perhaps others of the fiercer animals. Every dog in 

 India is as much the objedl of charity with the Mahometans as 

 they are in Europe, Akbar had his hunting eftablifhment, he 

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