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Show Monkey Thut F I if lit with Stonen. The Gelnda baboons sometimes have battles with the Hamadryads, especially when the two species have a mind to rob the same field, and if lighting iu the hills, will roll stones on to their enemies. Not long ago a colony of Gelada baboons, which bad been fired at by some black soldiers attending a duke of Coburg-Ootha Coburg-Ootha ou a hunting expedition on the borders of Abyssinia, blocked a pass for some daya by rolling rocks on all comers. This seems to give some support to a curious cu-rious objection raised by a Chinese local governor in a report to his superior on the difficulties in the way of opening to steamers the waters of the upper Yang-tse. The repott, after noting that the inhabitants on the upper waters wero ignorent men who might quarrel with Btrangers, went on to allege that monkeys, mon-keys, which inhabited the banks, would roll down stones on the steamers. "Tho two lust facts," the report added, "wonld lead to complaint from the English En-glish nnd embroil the Celestials with ! them, especially if the men or the mon-j mon-j keys kill any English." Spectator. |