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ing itself by biting those who were near it, which obliged us to bind ou 
handkerchiefs over its head.” 
Tavernier tells us that some of the inhabitants of India adopt a ludicrous 
mode of avenging themselves on these monkeys, who not unfrequently 
attack the women who are going to market, and rob them of their provi 
sions. In an open space, near the retreat of the apes, they place five or 
six baskets of rice, forty ot fifty yards asunder, and near the baskets, a num- 
ber of stout cudgels, each two feet in length. They then hide themselves, 
to watch for the result. Thinking that no one sees them, the apes hasten 
towards the baskets. Fora while they grin angrily at each other, then 
approach, then retire, and seem to dread coming @o action for the prey. 
More daring than the males, the females at length advance to the baskets, 
and as they thrust in their heads to eat, the males on the one side rush 
forward to prevent them. This brings on a general engagement, and the 
cudgels are lustily plied till the weakest party is compelled to seek for 
shelter in the woods. The victors then quietly fall to, upon their hard- 
earned meal. 

TH EYP. Gah A Ce Dee BR ACB O:O N 2 

Tus animal, which is also called the chacma, is a native of Africa, and 
was formerly exceedingly troublesome to the settlers in the neighborhood 

1 Cynocephalus porcarius. The genus Cynocephalus comprises Simiz, with four upper 
and four lower incisors; two upper, and two lower canines; ten u per, and ten lowe 
molars. Canines very strong; last molar of the under jaw on anh side with a heel; 
head and muzzle much elongated; nostrils placed at the extremity, like the dog; facial 
angle, thirty to thirty-five degrees ; superciliary, sagittal, and occipital ridges, much de- 
veloped ; orbit hollow; maxillary bone much produced; face eeled with longitudinal 
striz; ears flat and angular; cheek p,‘aches; members of nearly equal length, and very 
robust; large callosities. 
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