Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-10
IN INDIA,
j UsTITIA

a writer in the Household. Words has been giving
sketches describing scenes, life occurrences, and
the administration of civil government 10 India.
In one OF his articles we find the following des,
cription OF a convention of MONKEYS. The follow.
ing remarkable incident is related as an actual
fac:
About two miles from the bungalow to which
we were proceeding, we overlook a tribe of large
monkeys. | should say there were as MANY as
four hundred and each carried a stick of uniform
length and shape. They moved along in ranks
or companies, just, in short, as though they were
initiating a wing OF a regiment of infantry. At
the head OF this tribe was an old and very powerful
monkey, who was no doubt the chief. 1t was II
very odd sight, and | became greatly interested in
the movements Of the creatures. There could he
no question that they had either some business or
some pleasure on hand and the fact of each car.
rylng a stick led us to conclude that it was the for.
mer upon which they were bent. Their destina.
ton was,like oars. evidently Deobund, where there
are some hundreds of monkeys fed by a number
OF Brahmins, who lived near a Hindoo temple
there; and perform religious ceremonies. They
tins monkey regiment), would not get out of the
ROAD on our account, nor disturb themselves in
any way; and my friend was afraid to drive
through their ranks. or over any of them, for
when assalled they are most ferocious brutes; and
armed as they were, and in such numbers, they
could have annihilated US with the greatest ease.
There was no help for us, therefore, but to let the
niare pIoceeu at IL walk IN the rear OF the tribe,
the members of which now that they were nearing
Deobond, began to chatter frightfully. Just be,
fore we came to the bungalow, they left the road
and took!the direction of the temple. Fain would
we have followed them, but to do so ia the buggy
would have been impossible, for they crossed oveI
some very rough ground and two bitches. Nv
friend therefore requested the sowars to follow
them, and report all they might observe of their
actions.
My friend now mentioned to the Khansamab. q
very old, but very active and intelligent man, the
sight we had seen on the road-the regiment c
monkeys.
'Ah!' exclaimed the old man, it is atou. ,bt
time.'
What timer
Well, Sahib, about every five years that tribe
comes up the country to pay a visit to this place.
and another tribe comes about the same time from
the up Countryside hills. They meet in a Jungle
behind the old Hindoo temple, and there embrace
each Other as though they were human beings and
OLD friends who had been parted for a length OF
time. ] have seen in that jungle as many as four
or five thousand. The Brahmins say that one
large tribe comes all the way from Aimere. and
another from the southern side of the country
aud from Nepaul and Thirhoot. There were hun.
dreds OF monkeys here this morning, but now | dc
not see one. ! suppose they have gone to welcome
all their friends
The sowars who had been deputed to follow the
tribe now rode up, and reported, that, near tho
old temple, there was an army of apes-au army
OF forty thousandl One of the Sowars, in the true
spirit OF Oriental exaggeration, expressed himself
to the effect that it would be easier to count The