Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 438
stewhether coin is good or bad, and merchants em-ploy him for the purpose of detecting counterfeits. Within a few months a gentleman of India hastried his hand at training monkeys, and he reports Another valuable monkey is the chacma ofAfrica. When young, this baboon is very teach-able, and is… … SIAMESE MERCHANTS EMPLOY THE APE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETECTING COUNTERFEITS, to the Asiatic Society of Bengal his success inteaching them to pull punkahs. A punkah —perhaps you know — is an immense fan, hung fromthe ceiling, and moved back and forth by meansof a rope outside the room. It keeps a…
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