THE MONKEY AND CROW. 
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I do not stay to describe our journey to the coast, 
which had nothing particular to render it interesting. 
We determined to proceed forthwith to Cochin, ex- 
pecting there to be able to procure a passage in some 
vessel that would take us up the Red Sea. We stop- 
ped a few days at Tillicherry, where a curious inci- 
dent occurred, which, as Mr. Daniell has thought it 
worth making the subject of a picture, I cannot but 
think it worth recording. 
In the jungles about this neighbourhood there is 
a large species of monkey, frequently tamed by the 
natives, and at a village a short distance from this 
celebrated seaport we had an evidence of the remark- 
able sagacity of this animal. A few yards from 
the house of the person to whom it belonged, a 
thick pole, at least thirty feet high, had been fixed 
into the earth, round which was an iron ring, 
and to this was attached a strong chain of consi- 
derable length, fastened to a collar round the mon- 
key’s neck. The ring being loose, it easily slid up 
the pole when he ascended or descended.. He was 
in the habit of taking his station upon the top of the 
bamboo, where he seemed perched as if to enjoy the 
beauties of the prospect around him ; — this was really 
striking. The crows, which in India are very abund- 
ant and singularly audacious, taking advantage of 
his elevated position, had been in the daily habit of 
robbing him of his food, which was placed every morn- 
ing and evening at the foot of the pole. To this he had 
vainly expressed his dislike by chattering, and other 
indications of his displeasure equally ineffectual ; no- 
thing that he could do was of any avail to scare away 
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