THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
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inimical to the hoonuman. It is not, however, an unresisted tyranny, for when¬ 
ever a hoonuman finds a snake asleep, it at once seizes it by the back of the 
neck, drags it to the ground, and puts it to death with the utmost refinements of 
torture, slowly grinding off its head against the edge of some sharp stone or 
rock; nay, more than this, after death has befallen the snake, the hoonuman 
treats its lifeless remains with contempt and tosses them to make sport for its 
young. It will 
follow tiger- 
hunters, and is 
frequently use¬ 
ful in pointing 
out the hiding- 
place of their 
game. It has 
learned that it 
is perfectly safe 
in the pres¬ 
ence of man, for 
its position as a 
sacred being 
protects it as 
fully as the law 
in the most 
highly civilized 
communities 
guards against 
the commission 
of murder. Still 
further, the doc- 
trine of the 
t r ansmigration 
of souls, so com¬ 
mon in some of 
the ancient phi¬ 
losophers, and 
popularly 
known through 
stories of the 
Egyptians, adds 
to the sacred 
ness of its per¬ 
son. 
gibbon (Hylobates lar). 
The Lungoor (. Semnopithecus schistaceus ) is a sacred monkey, belonging to 
the mountain districts of Nepaul. 
The Negro Monkey, Moor, or Budeng ( Semnopithecus maurus ), is jet- 
black, and its long silken hair furnishes most of the monkey-fur which from 
time to time receives the imprimatur of fashion. It is difficult to tame, and 
not very agreeable or amusing when domesticated. It ranges the,woods of Java 
in companies of forty or more, and keeps up the most constant and noisiest 
