. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . - thin, stand upright,and are large for the size of the head. The eyes shinebrightly, and during the day have a reddish all night-animals, they can see much better in thedark than in the daytime. The tail is somewhat The picture of a galagowill give you an excellentidea of what the animal islike. A large specimen isof the size of a little puuycat. The ffalaijo beino; a uoc-turiijil aniiiKil, us 8(X)ii as Tin: THE OLD (lALAGO SKEDADDLES. 103 darkness makes its
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . - thin, stand upright,and are large for the size of the head. The eyes shinebrightly, and during the day have a reddish all night-animals, they can see much better in thedark than in the daytime. The tail is somewhat The picture of a galagowill give you an excellentidea of what the animal islike. A large specimen isof the size of a little puuycat. The ffalaijo beino; a uoc-turiijil aniiiKil, us 8(X)ii as Tin: THE OLD (lALAGO SKEDADDLES. 103 darkness makes its appearance, it prepares itself to goout of its lair in search of food. It loves to feed uponinsects, sucli as cockroaches, etc.; but, besides insects, itfeeds on the fruits, berries, and nuts of the forest. Longbefore daylight it retires to its lair, and remains thereduring the whole day. It climbs about on trees frombranch to branch like a monkey, and uses its for-e feetlike hands, as the monkey does, only it is far from beingas agile as a monkey. One fine morning I looked for the little galago, butshe was not to be found. The string that held her hadbroken during the night, and she had sledaddled forparts unknown in the forest. I ha\e often thought thatif the galagos have a language of their own, my prison-er will have strange tales
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