ADDENDA. 
'Anecdotes and descriptions * chiefly illustra « 
live of the manners of the most remarkable ani* 
mals, collected from various ^respectable autho- 
rities. 
Monkeys. 
D U. Buchanan* in his travels through India, in- 
forms us of some curious particulars concerning 
the veneration in which monkeys are held by the 
inhabitants of that country. 
The monkeys in India are extremely destructive* 
not only plundering the gardens* but in some in- 
stances attacking the houses of the inhabitants. 
At Mail-cotay the roofs are covered with thorns* 
to prevent these troublesome animals from tearing 
up the tiles., and casting them at the heads of the 
people who are traversing the streets. Yet such is 
the blindness of these idolaters* that the very person 
who applauds his Guru for having ground the Jainas* 
an hetorodox people* with their priests* in an oil 
mill* because they would not listen to his instruction, 
will shudder with horror when he contemplates the 
murder of a monkey. 
The monkeys are not only defended by popular 
superstition* but they are under the immediate pro- 
tection of the Daseris* a kind of religious mendi- 
cants, w ho assemble round any person guilty of their 
death* and allow him no rest* until he bestows on 
the animal a funeral* that w ill cost him from one bun- 
