9 
following valuable additions were made by purchase :— 
a magnificent Bison Bull and Cow from Texas, the latter 
being the very image of the Black Cow of Yama, which 
yields white milk; a third Polar Bear has been purchased, 
and also several Hanwmans or Sacred Monkeys. 
The following account of their mythical ancestor is 
taken from the Ramayana :— 
“When the two spies had returned to Kandy from 
their visit to the Camp of Rama, they described to Ravana, 
viewing the army of his enemy from the summit of Kandy, the 
names and qualities of the several chiefs much in the fashion 
in which Helen described to Priam on the walls of Troy the 
names and origin of the Grecian leaders. Their account of 
Hanuman is as follows :— 
“He whom thou seest sitting yonder, like an excited 
elephant ; that warrior who is able in his wrath to stir up the 
Sea herself against her will, is the same ape who has already 
triumphed over Lanka (Kandy), and who has seen Sita (the 
Helen of the story); behold him come back before these walls, 
whom thine eyes have already seen before. He is the 
eldest son of Kecari, or as report says, the son of the Wind. 
He is called Hanuman (the jaw fellow), and he it is that 
crossed the sea (from India to Ceylon). No one can stop his 
way, just as it is impossible to stop the wind in his course. 
One day, when he was vet an infant, when he saw the sun 
rising, he sprang out towards it; this much is certain that he 
crossed a distance of three thousand yodjanas (or 1,800 
Geographical miles).* ‘‘ I shall sieze the Sun,” says he, “ and 
he shall no longer pass over me.” He had formed this resolu- 
tion in his soul, because his strength was already drunk with 
pride. But it so happened that this god, the most invincible 
of beings among the Danavas, the Rishis, or the gods them- 
selves, did not put out the Sun, but fell himself upon the 
mountain, from behind which the Light-bearing Star rises day 
by day. ‘The ape, of the heavy body, falling headlong on the 
face of a rock, broke one of his jaws, and it is for this reason 
that he is called Hanuman (the jaw fellow). I have now told 
you what I learned of him during our expedition, to which I 
devoted my best attention. His strength, his shapes, his 
power are not possible of description.” 
During the year, a sad accident caused the death of one 
of our Keepers, THomas Fioop, who was killed in the 
* About as far as from Dublin to New York. 
