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mistaken J and the deeper the note the older and stronger the monkey. 

 Therefore, hearing a chorus of deep-throated barks, I went in the direction 

 of the sound to see what was happening there. The monkeys were far too 

 engrossed in their own affairs to pay any attention to me whatsoever, so I 

 took a post behind the trunk of a large tree on the main branch of the 

 nullah, which was shallow and quite dry. Soon after I took up my position 

 a number of half-grown monkeys passed me at a rush, some of them racing 

 along the ground, others bounding from branch to branch of the trees. 

 Having gone a certain distance, they all pulled up, and looked round in the 

 direction from which they had come. 



Evidently they were in a state of great fear, and chattered incessantly to 

 each other. Soon a couple of dozen ordinary full-grown lungoois also passed 

 me at a rush. They, too, appeared to be very much afraid, but halted on the 

 edge of the grove of trees. Last of all some half dozen very big ones passed 

 me, but stopped when they came among their smaller brethren. They seemed 

 afraid, too, but, ran, as it were, unwillingly from a big fierce-looking monkey 

 whose size and solitariness proclaimed him rajah. He came to within 50 

 yards of the crowd of monkeys, who, I suppose, had fled from him, and then 

 took up his position;in the bed of the nullah, and faced them, giving several 

 loud, deep barks, but all the time keeping a wary eye over his shoulder. 

 Suddenly from the crowd of males a big one ran out and placed himself on 

 the edge of the nullah, about halfway between his friends and the rajah, who 

 was now at bay, at the same time looking round on the groups of waiting 

 ones, as much as to say "Who is coming?" The challenge was instantly 

 accepted, and another large monkey went over to the opposite side of the 

 nullah and posted himself. Then they both looked round, evidently not 

 averse to still further assistance, on which a third monkey came forward and 

 took up his position between his two friends in the centre of the nullah ; so, 

 that finally, at about a distance of 15 yards or so, the rajah, still facing his 

 enemies, had three opposed to him, who looked as big as he was, though 

 probably they had not his weight and age. 



Suddenly the three champions, on some signal which I did cot catch, 

 rushed simultaneously at the rajah, who turned tail, and were immediately 

 followed at full speed by the whole crowd, each and. all makmg the echoes 

 ring with their deep barks. Whether they caught the rajah, and having 

 caught him, killed him, or merely satisfied themselves by making sure that ho 

 would never wish to be rajah again, I do not know, but I am sure that they 

 put it out of his power to again attack them singly and so master them. All 

 that I saw and could find out that day was that the largest and strongest 

 monkeys were all in full cry after the rajah, and that they drove him 

 altogether out of that grove of trees, but when and where they overtook him 

 I do not know and could not find out. Having been master of a herd of such 

 numbers, it is probable that the rajah was pretty soon overtaken, 



