hands or feet. It has a very large head and prominent belly, has but little hair on its body, and a flat and broad face. Its arms are longer than the human proportion, but, in other respects, strikingly like the human arm, and, as well as the legs, furnished with calves, or whatever else, in the case of arms, those swelling muscles may be termed. It is of a gentle and lazy disposition, fond of its keeper, and quiet with every body except when teazed; when made to climb a tree ascends no higher than it is urged to go, and when turned loose in the most distant part of the garden makes no use of its liberty except to run as fast as its four legs will carry it to its cage again. The natives make a marked distinction between this animal and their usual large baboon, calling it not "lungoor," but "junglee admee," "wild man." They evidently regard it as a great curiosity, and, I apprehend, it owes something of its corpulency to their presents of fruit'.

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1 About half-a mile from the house, and following, on one side, the course of the sea, is a very extensive wood, principally of coco-trees, through which the road runs for about three miles, to the town and ferry of Mahim. This wood is thickly inhabited by people of all religions, but the Portuguese Christians, who perfectly resemble the natives in dress and appearance, seem to be the most numerous; and the circumstance of there being here the ruins of a College, as well as a Church, with the Priests' house attached to it, would prove it to have been the principal settlement on the island. There are also several Hindoo and Mussulman mosques and pagodas. The wood is so intersected by roads and paths, with but few objects to serve as landmarks, that a stranger would have much difficulty in finding his way out of the labyrinth of trees and huts.

The town of Mahim is ill-built, but it has a fort, a Catholic Church, and other monuments of former prosperity. The priests are, for the