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Show A CITY OP MONKBV3. O" ( la SlraaaMI SlfkU la lha tVhaU .( InSla. Mrs. Cltra Krtklne Clement describes graphically a visit to the ancient city ot Aaber, In India, and which la Inhabited In-habited only by a few prlu and thousands thou-sands ot monkeys The hill on which the old city stands Is surrounded by other high hills, crowned with towers and ramparts and covered with trees. The great cattle-fortress stands out boldly. The old tenana, or women's spartments-sn extensive block ol buildings, surrounded by a court-Is ths only place which It Inhabited. Thli Is a wall.populated and lively quarter, since a tribe of lsngour or hoonoomaun monkeys hsve taken posmsalon, and dwell here In comfort and freedom. The Hindus religiously rofratn from hurting or killing any animal, and ths monkeys, having no fear, aro monarchi of all they choose to take. The hoonoomaun, hoonoo-maun, or langour. It the sacred monkey, mon-key, and the largest found In India. Its height Is from two and a half te four feet, Its body Is singularly slender slen-der and supple, Its face Is black and smooth, eicept for long white whls. kers; tot hair on the body Is gray on. ths back and whlto under tho atom ach; Its tall Is long and bare, with a single tail ot hair on the end. The Hindus hare a legend which oxplalns Its very black face It says thst. ages ago, Hoonoomaun, the king ot the monkeys, went to astlst lUrua In the conquest ot Ceylon The demon-king of tbla (aland had carried oft LIU, the wife of llama, and ho was dotnrmlned lo rescue her At they came near to ths Island, Hoonoomaun easily leaped over ths straits, so skillful a Jumper was he, and finding Llta, he was comforting com-forting her with the news that her huiband was approaching, when Ila-tan-, the dtmon-klng, appeared and nifaUMnoomiitn prisoner. After tiling fire to the monkey's long tall, he gave him his freedom, that he might rttirn to llama. Hoonoomaun succeeded suc-ceeded In blowing out the fire at the end of his tall, but In so doing he blackened bis face and alnged his hair In a most unbecoming fashion The loss ot his beauty so saddened the poor beut that llama made all the monkeys of Bla kind kalamoukb, or black-faced, which they remain to this day St Nicholas. |