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of whose observation I can rely. He was on board a 
steamer where there were two common East India 
monkeys, one of which was older and larger than the 
other, though they were not mother and child. The 
smaller monkey one day fell overboard amidships. The 
arger one became frantically excited, and running over 
the bulwarks down to a part of the ship which is called 
6 the bend,’ it held on to the side of the vessel with one 
hand, while with the other it extended to her drowning 
companion a cord with which she had been tied up, and 
one end of which was fastened round her waist. The 
incident astonished everyone on board, but unfortunately 
for the romance of the story the little monkey was not 
near enough to grasp the floating end of the cord. The 
animal, however, was eventually saved by a sailor throwing 
out a longer rope to the little swimmer, who had sense 
enough to grasp it, and so to be hauled on board. 
The following account of the behaviour of a wounded 
monkey seems to suggest the presence of a class of 
emotions similar to those which we know as feelings of 
reproach. The observer was Capt. Johnson : — 
I was one of a party of Jeekary in the Bahar district ; our 
tents were pitched in a large mango garden, and our horses 
were picquetted in the same garden a little distance off. 
When we were at dinner a Syer came to us, complaining that 
some of the horses had broken loose in consequence of being 
frightened by monkeys (i.e. Macacus Orhesus) on the trees. As 
soon as dinner was over I went out with my gun to drive them 
off, and I fired with small shot at one of them, which instantly 
ran down to the lowest branch of the tree, as if he were going 
to fly at me, stopped suddenly, and coolly put his paw to the 
part wounded, covered with blood, and held it out for me to 
see. I was so much hurt at the time that it has left an im- 
pression never to be effaced, and I have never since fired a gun 
at any of the tribe. Almost immediately on my return to the 
party, before I had fully described what had passed, a Syer came 
to inform us that the monkey was dead. We ordered the 
Syer to bring it to us, but by the time he returned the othei 
monkeys had carried the dead one off, and none of them could 
anywhere be seen. 
This case is strikingly corroborated by the following 
