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THE LIVING WORLD. 
which on the under parts of the body, on the shoulders and on the face becomes 
a true golden. The nostrils do not, as in man, run the length of the nose, but 
seem to be mere slits at its extremity. It is said that in making its immense 
leaps from branch to branch, and from tree to tree, that the kahau always holds 
up one hand as a protection to what the poet called “ a most unlikely feature, 
but mine own, sir.” 
The Proboscis Monkey ( Semnopithecus nasalis , or larvatus ,) belongs to 
Borneo, lives in large troops in the trees which skirt the banks of the rivers, 
resembles a shrivelled, bowed, long-nosed, little old man or woman, and is sacred 
in the eyes of the natives. Its noisy outcries, malignant disposition and fond¬ 
ness for irritating mischief, seem to add a fresh illustration to the truth that the 
uncivilized animal nature is perfectly unfit for the government of self or of others. 
The Proboscis Monkey f Nasalis larvatus ) is only about two feet in length, 
and the tail claims “ the 
larger half” of this. 
Its color is a dark 
chestnut, but its face 
markings are blue and 
red. It is frugivorous 
and peculiar to the 
fauna of Borneo. 
The Hoonuman, 
or Entellus (. Presby¬ 
ter entellus , or sem¬ 
nopithecus) , exceeds the 
simpai and the negro 
monkey in size, being 
about eight feet in 
length, equally distri¬ 
buted between the body 
and the tail. It is at 
first gray in color, with 
brown lines on back 
and loins, but with in¬ 
creasing age changes to 
black. The hoonuman is the sacred monkey- of India, and like the Sacred 
Brahma Bull has learned that he has “ the freedom of the city,” and like the 
bull uses his opportunities to their fullest extent. He mingles freely with the 
natives, not that he values social intercourse with them, but simply because they 
furnish opportunities for his amusement or profit. He is fond of shopping, and it 
is always understood that his purchases can be charged only as an offset to the 
faults and follies of poor humanity. His demands are rendered none the less 
exorbitant by the fact that for him to have a handful requires a provision four¬ 
fold as great as for a human being. The banyan-tree, so familiar an illustration 
in school geographies, is a favorite resort of the hoonuman or entellus , and his 
numbers seem a sufficient excuse for its branches bending to the earth, and 
having taken root to furnish yet further support to the parent tree. No one is 
without enemies, so in spite of the veneration accorded by man to the hoonuman , 
the serpent—man’s earliest and most irreconcilable foe—is specially harmful and 
