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RHINOCEROS, 
dred to two hundred fanams, according to the num- 
ber of Daseris that have assembled on the oc- 
casion. 
The proprietors of the gardens used formerly 
to hire a particular class of men, who took these 
animals in nets, and then by stealth conveyed them 
into the gardens of some distant village ; but as 
thp people there had recourse to the same expe-^ 
die fit, ad parties have become tired of this practice. 
After all, the intelligent traveller delivers it as his 
opinion, that if government ordered the extirpation 
of the monkeys, the inhabitants would secretly rejoice, 
though for decency's sake they might raise an ex- 
traordinary clamour. 
Some species of monkeys are said to paint their 
faces of a red colour, by rubbing them against the 
fruit of a certain tree, which, from that circumstance, 
has taken the name of the monkey's face tree. 
The inhabitants of Java pretend to a fellow feeling 
for one species of monkey which they call wow-wow, 
they having a tradition, that their ancestors originally 
sprung from that species of ape. 
Rhinoceros 
Vaillant, in his second travels in Africa, gives m 
the following curious and animated description of the 
hunt of two of these animals. 
In the midst of this immense menagery, the va- 
riety of which kept me in a continual state of en- 
chantment, I was surprised not to find that pro- 
digious number of rhinoceroses which had been 
mentioned to me by the people of Haripashorde. 
One day, however, Klaas, who was always con- 
cerned in every matter of importance, and the first 
to communicate agreeable intelligence, came in great 
haste to my tent to inform me, that lie had observed, 
at some distance from my camp, two of these am* 
