MONKEYS. 17 
chastise them severely with the other. Some 
^ould try to escape, but, when out of danger, 
they Would approach in a wheedling, caressing 
banner, though always liable to relapse into 
the same faults: in other cases each would 
come at the first cry of the dam. If the latter 
removed to a little distance, the young would 
slowly follow ; but when there was occasion 
for haste, they always mounted on the backs 
or clung to the bosom of their mothers. 
hlonkeys are generally peaceable enough 
among themselves, hut will not suffer intru- 
<lers of a different species. M. de Maisonpre 
and several other Europeans witnessed an in- 
stance of this antipathy at one of the pagodas 
cf Cheringam. A large strong monkey having 
stolen in, on the first cry of alarm, a number 
cf males joined to attack the intruder. Aware 
his danger, he, though much superior to 
of them in size and strength, hastened to 
top of a pyramid eleven stories high, fol- 
ii. c 
