. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . .It was entirely a new species to me. Being so small, Icalled it Sciurus Tninutus when I gave a description ofit in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of NaturalHistory for 1860, p. 366. I remember the first time 1met a kendo I was with my great friend Querlaouen,just by a swamp, hidden and watching for wild ducksthat were in the habit of coming to it every day. Allat once I saw climbing along the trunk of a tree a littleanimal, which seemed so small that I had some doubtabout my having
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . .It was entirely a new species to me. Being so small, Icalled it Sciurus Tninutus when I gave a description ofit in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of NaturalHistory for 1860, p. 366. I remember the first time 1met a kendo I was with my great friend Querlaouen,just by a swamp, hidden and watching for wild ducksthat were in the habit of coming to it every day. Allat once I saw climbing along the trunk of a tree a littleanimal, which seemed so small that I had some doubtabout my having seen any thing at all. I lost sight ofit in a few seconds, then got sight of it again, but onlyfor a second, as I hardly had my eye upon it when itvanished. Querlaouen saw it also, and told me it was akendo. I immediately drew the heavy charge from oneof the barrels of my gun and reloaded with the smaliesrkind of shot I had, and which was used by me to killvery small birds. At last I got sight again of a little kendo. He wasgnawing a little bit of the bark of the tree, and was 78 MT APING I THE JiiNnrus, on kendo. standing still. It was the most graceful little tiny thingI had seen. Just as I raised my gun he moved a^-ay,l)ut as quickly as possible I followed him in his move-ment, and as soon as I saw a good chance I fired, andthe poor little thing tumbled down to the gromid, to theutter amazement of friend Querlaouen, who was surethat I had a big monda (fetich) to be able to hit such alittle thing. During my sojourn in Africa I killed sev-eral more of these little kendos, and brought their stuffedskins back, and as 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
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