تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.99.3

13.99.3

as though he were a sultan. He binds on his head a band of tree leaves and leans on a staff, and on his right and left are four monkeys with staves in their hands. When the leading monkey sits down, the four monkeys stand at his head, and his female and his young come and sit before him every day. The monkeys come and sit at a distance from him; then one of the four monkeys speaks to them and all the monkeys go off, and then each of them brings a banana or a lemon or the like, and the leading monkey, his young and the four monkeys eat.