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who travels for a local firm. While in Assam at one of the tea plantations he told me of a tame black gibbon he met. This animal was of large size but very affectionate & tame & was allowed freedom to roam over the whole estate but it never wandered away into the forest except for a frolic or in search of food. It occasionally stole the [[?]] at mess time but never bit or threatened any members of the family. Sometimes it gave its weird call note. (18) In attempting to sell my 256 rifle I got a requisition with the manager of Manton & Co. gun store. He told me that down in the Sunderbunds there was good tiger shooting, often the tigers were seen swimming across the