THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
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It is a short, stout-bodied animal, with a mere excuse for a tail, and callosities 
specially prominent because of their colors. Green, orange and yellow contend 
with each other in coloring the hair, though the back is brown, and the arms 
dun-colored beneath. It is naturally free from shyness, and possessed of the 
most insatiable inquisitiveness, and these qualities seem to be developed by the 
veneration in which the natives hold it. 
It can leap many feet, and that even though encumbered by its young, 
and overloaded with the results of successful expropriation. It is mischievous 
and pranksome, and like some other species does not hesitate to hurl missiles 
as well as objurgations. One traveller tells of the liberties taken by a pack of 
bunder monkeys. He says that 
while in camp he was suddenly 
informed that a pack of bunders 
had taken possession of the sur¬ 
rounding trees, whence they made 
constant descents, as one coveted 
object after another attracted 
their attention. The loss of tur¬ 
bans, spears and other ordinary 
possessions had not greatly dis¬ 
turbed the natives, but when the 
bunders began amusing themselves 
with the horses and cattle, the 
natives thought it high time to 
communicate with “ the central 
office ” before a stampede should 
have been initiated. The travel¬ 
ler taking his gun, shot one bun¬ 
der as an example, and the lesson, 
though a surprise, proved to be 
sufficient. Still, the hunter was 
compelled to withstand on the one 
hand the superstitious fears of 
the natives, and on the other the 
pathetic spectacle of the wounded 
bunder coming directly to him for 
medical aid, which proved useless. 
On another occasion several offi¬ 
cers were put to death by the natives for killing a bunder. 
An ingenious scheme of a European farmer or planter is to be found “ in 
the books.” Knowing that he did not dare kill the bunders , and not being will¬ 
ing to raise crops for their benefit solely, he caught quite a number of the 
young ones, and having covered them with a mixture of syrup and tartar 
emetic, set them free and started them to rejoin the rest of the pack. The 
whole tribe now engaged in licking up so well-tasting a repast, and when thq 
aftermath came it at once and forever deserted a neighborhood where the cooks 
poisoned the food. The bunder is jealous, envious, spiteful and malevolent, and 
sight-seers about our monkey cages will do well to identify him, and remain 
upon the most distant terms of acquaintance. Another peculiarity in the appear- 
