Dr. Macgowan adds that the chronicler a staff of six cites an author who affirms that in Szecl an there are monkeys who manufacture wine, and he gives the following anecdote in evidence. A patty of villagers who desired to try the quality of the monkey wine, placed unobserved a great tease near the monkeys' eaves, and then hid themselves. On discovering the food the monkeys went to their caves and brought out their liquor, without which the feast could not be enjoyed. At that moment the villagers rushed out of their hiding-place, and the monkeys forthwith scampered off, leaving the wine, with which their human relations made themselves merry. Dr. Macgowan adds that he has met in his Chinese reading an account of monkeys in Chékimng who pound fruit in stone mortars to make into wine, ard he asks: Is it likely that all these statements are pure inventions?"
WEATHER, It continues oppressively hot, with the mercury ranging well up to 90 ina protected shady place.
Srd July.
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