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mcnccJ, the monkey moved to the edge, wliere he couhl observe liis master, 

 and began to mimic his gestures and motions. The effect was kidicrous 

 enough. The whole congregation shook with suppressed huigliter. Tlie 

 clergyman, not knowing the cause, felt himself insulted, and sharply 

 rebuked his people for tlieir levity. The laughing continued ; the good 

 pastor, growing excited and angry, harangued his audience in a loud voice 

 and with more emphatic gestures. Tiic violence and rapidity of the 

 monkey's gesticulations and grimaces increased in the same proportion, 

 luitil, unable longer to control the impulse, one simultaneous shout of 

 lauglitcr burst from the people, and resounded through the sacred place. 



At length one of the audience called the attention of the clergyman to the 

 cause of all this disturbance, which seemed to him so extraordinary. When 

 he saw his monkey playing the minister over his head, he could not refrain 

 from joining in the laugh himself. The moukcy-pi'icst was soon made to 

 descend from his pulpit, and retire to his quarters ; and good care was taken 

 to prevent his going to church again. 



The Gigantic Oukaxg. — ^^'e find in the Asiastic Researches the fol- 

 lowing account of this rare and rcmarkalile animal, the story of whose caji- 

 ture and killing — -we had almost said murdrr — we cannot read without 

 pain : — 



" X boat party, under the command of ilessrs. Cragyman and Fish, 

 officers of the brig ]Mary Anne Sophia, having landed to procure water 

 at a place called liamboom, near Tournaman, on the north-west coast of 

 Sumatra, on a spot where there was much cultivated ground and but few 

 trees, discovered on one of them a gigantic animal of the monkey trilie. 

 On the approach of the party he came to the ground, and, when pursued, 

 sougiit refuge in another tree at some distance, exhibiting, as he moved, tiic 

 appearance of a tall, man-like figiu'C, covered with shining brown hair, walk- 

 ing erect with a waddling gait, but sometimes accelerating his motion with 

 his hands, and occasionally impelling himself forward witii the bough of a 

 tree. His motion on the ground was plainly not his natural mode of pro- 

 gression, for even when assisted by his hands or stick, it was slow and vacil- 

 lating ; it was necessary to see him among trees to estimate his strength and 

 agility. On being driven to a small clump, he gained by one spring a very 

 lofty branch, and bounded from one to another with the ease and alacrity 

 of other monkeys. Had the country been covered witli wood, his escape 

 could not have been prevented, as his mode of travelling from one tree to 

 another is described to be as rapid as the progress of a swift horse. Even 

 amidst the few trees that were on the spot, his movements were so quick 

 that it was difficult to obtain a settled aim, and it was only by cutting down 

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