i88 IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. 



bushes, and shouting " hill-hillo-lowee ! hill-hillo- 

 lowee!" As they approached, the monkeys, now 

 mad with fear, threw themselves tumultuously from 

 the trees, and scampered off along the sandy margin 

 of the stream, the hunters in hot pursuit. The 

 monkeys were kept to the stream by a line of 

 Behurs, who now appeared on the margin, and 

 thus chased, they rushed headlong into nets 

 previously stretched across the sandy shore from 

 the water to the bank, and for some distance along 

 the edge. Into this cul-de-sac they were driven, 

 and while entangled in the nets clubbed to death 

 by the Behurs. There was not the slightest attempt 

 on their part to show fight, although some of the 

 lungurs were of the largest size quite four feet 

 without the tail and had large powerful teeth. 

 That lungurs can fight I have occasion to re- 

 member, in the loss of two fine dogs and the 

 serious injury of another. But now a great fear 

 seemed to come over them, and, huddled up in 

 the nets, they tried to hide themselves under one 

 another as they were mercilessly brained by the 

 clubs of the Behurs. 



We thought it time to show ourselves, as there 

 was less chance of the hunters running away now 

 that they had bagged their game. Perhaps it was 

 their numbers gave them courage there were about 

 thirty in all, men, women, and children and we 

 were but three. The women and children collected 

 the nets, while the men proceeded to flay the 

 monkeys, of which there were a dozen, or 

 more. The skinning Jwas most effectually done in 



