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people thought it to be the firing of guns, or thun- 
“ der at fome diflance. At the firft fliock I could 
“ hardly hold my feet; but, thank God, no bad ac- 
“ cident has happened ; and I hope the Almighty 
“ will deliver us from any more of thefe frightful 
“ Ihocks. I was up almoft the whole night. The 
wind was northerly, but faint, and it was fultry 
“ hot ; the fky clofe and cloudy, and not a flar to 
be feen. The oldeft people here fay, they never 
remember to have felt fo violent a fhock, and of 
“ fo long continuance. The fhips in the harbour 
flaook and whirled about, and thofe on board inia- 
gined at firft that it had been a whirlwind.”- 
At Manilla earthquakes are often very violent, fo as 
to overturn fleeples, houfes, and other buildings ; 
and I obferved, when I was there, that, to prevent 
fuch accidents, their timbers in building are placed 
in a very particular manner ; they have no Attic 
flory, only ware-houfes, and one floor over them. 
Perhaps the drawing, which I now fend you, of a 
fingular fort of Monkies, male and female, may not 
prove unacceptable. Thefe animals are called Golok, 
or wild people,- and are thought to be originally a 
mixture with the human kind, having no tails. 
They come out of the forefts in the interior part of 
Bengal, from the country called Mevat. They in- 
habit the woods : their food is fruit, leaves, bark of 
trees, and milk: flefla only when caught. They are 
very gentle, and extremely modefl. They are of 
the height of a man ; their teeth are as white as 
pearls ; their legs and arms are in due proportion to 
their body, which is very genteel. Some of them 
were 
