. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . I know that you would like to see justhow big the little animal is, there stands before you apicture of a full grown specimen. / DISMISS jVY cooks. 79 I can not tell you the astonishment of Remandji whenhe saw I had been successful in killini!; the kendo. Iwas in his eye a much greater spirit than ever; so, ifQiieilaouen was astonished, you must just fancy howmuch moic amazed Remandji was. The next day we got back to Kemandji, where everydemonstration of joy from the villagers welcomed us.
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . I know that you would like to see justhow big the little animal is, there stands before you apicture of a full grown specimen. / DISMISS jVY cooks. 79 I can not tell you the astonishment of Remandji whenhe saw I had been successful in killini!; the kendo. Iwas in his eye a much greater spirit than ever; so, ifQiieilaouen was astonished, you must just fancy howmuch moic amazed Remandji was. The next day we got back to Kemandji, where everydemonstration of joy from the villagers welcomed us. Ientered the village with a very large retinue of womenas cooks, headed, of course, by my old housekeeper, whoinsisted on taking the lead and being first in every thing,because, as she said, she was the first that had been givento me. I gave to each of these poor creatures a few bigbeads, and then dismissed them, and they returned totheir own villages feeling quite hapi)y. Wandering the next morning in the forest with Okabi,1 heard a very strange sound, and stopped to listen andfind out what it CHAPTER XII. A HERD OF MONKEYS. HOW THEY TRAVEL IN THE FOREST. WHITE-NOSED MONKEYS. THEIR GREAT LEAPS. HOW TIIEY KEEP FOOD WHEN NOT HUNGRY. Hark! said I, hark! What is the noise I hear?It must come from a band of monkeys ti-aveling in tlieforest from tree to tree. It is no use to go to tliem, saidI to Okabi; let us hide ourselves in tiie direction wherethe noise comes from, and if they come in a straight linethey may pass over our heads, and we may then have agood shot at them. This was haixUy said before it wasdone. We hid ourselves under a thick little bush. Tlienoise came nearer and nearer. Ho ! ho ! I thought, theyare going to pass just over our heads. This was a greatpiece of good fortune. I hid myself the best way I could, squatting close tothe ground, and sinking my neck into my shoulders asmuch as possible, and hardly dared to breathe, when, byjingo, I felt like sneezing!
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