[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 14.2.3 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 14.2.3 Travels in India (Ball) 14.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [14.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.3) We saw overhead numbers of large monkeys, male and female, and several of the latter carried their young ones in their arms. We each had our carriage, and the English President stopped his in order to tell me that he had an excellent and curious gun which the Governor of Daman had presented to him, and, knowing that I was a good shot, he asked me to prove it upon one of these monkeys. One of my attendants, who was of the country, having signed to me not to risk it, I sought to dissuade the President from his intention, but it was impossible, and taking his gun he slew a female monkey, which remained extended between two branches, letting her young ones fall to the ground. There followed at once what my attendant, who had signed to me, had foreseen. All the monkeys which were on the trees, to the number of more than sixty, descended immediately, in a rage, and jumped on the carriage of the President, and would have strangled him, but for the prompt assistance that some gave by closing the windows, and the crowd of attendants who were present drove them off. Although they did not come to my carriage, which followed at some paces distant from that of the President, I nevertheless feared for myself the fury of these monkeys, which were both large and powerful, and they pursued the carriage of the President for nearly a league, so much were they enraged. - [Previous: 14.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.2) - [Next: 14.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.4) - [Up: 14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.3) · Pramāṇa