. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE HAMADSYAH. in look particiilai-ly tempting to the thirsty. The Baboons, ever on the watch for something new' and to nteal, fee the pitchers and pans, and of course just taste their contents. Feeling happy and enlivened, after a while thej' try again, and finally drink long and deejtly, becoming in a short time decidedly tipsy, and unable to ta'ce care of themselves. Drunk and incapable would be the accusation agamst them by native police. Unfortunately for the tipplers their punishment is greater than the crime; and not only do they su
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE HAMADSYAH. in look particiilai-ly tempting to the thirsty. The Baboons, ever on the watch for something new' and to nteal, fee the pitchers and pans, and of course just taste their contents. Feeling happy and enlivened, after a while thej' try again, and finally drink long and deejtly, becoming in a short time decidedly tipsy, and unable to ta'ce care of themselves. Drunk and incapable would be the accusation agamst them by native police. Unfortunately for the tipplers their punishment is greater than the crime; and not only do they suffer all the miseries of headache, thirst, and bodily depression, but they lose their liberty also, and not for a time only. The natives, knowing that after a few hours they may «xpect to find the Baboons incapable of biting, fighting, or running away, go out and search for their victims, and bring them home and place them in durance \-ile. The next morning they awake to a stnse of their condition. They hold their aching heads with both hands, and look ^v•ith a most pitiable. Fi-om the Zonloijical Gavdens.) expression. Brehm saw some of them in this plight, and gives a most amusing description of their gi-imaces and laughable conduct. A little wine or beer was offered to some who had recovered from their debauch, but they would have notliing to do with it at the time. They turned away with disgust, but they relished the juice of some lemons which was given to them. The Baboons, symbolical of learning, the observers of the moon in eclipse, and the compaiions of the bacchanalian jug, once so esteemed, worshipped, and mummified by the ancient Egyptians, have terribly fallen in social and religious reputation on the very spot of then- former glories. In modern Egypt they may be seen in some houses where, at a fanciful kind of banquet, they have to sit around the room holding torches. And right bad torch-bearers they are, for every now and then some Baboon becomes aggressive, or
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