e indeed.
This monkey's face was as black as coal, and its two deep-seated eyes
were, if possible, blacker than coal. Its head was bald, but the rest
of its body was plentifully covered with hair.

Now this monkey was evidently caught--taken by surprise--for instead of
trying to escape as the canoe approached, it sat there chattering and
exhibiting its teeth to a degree that was quite fiendish, not to say--
under the circumstances--unnecessary. As the canoe dropped slowly down
the river, it became obvious that this monkey had a baby, for a very
small and delicate creature was seen clinging round the big one's waist
with its little hands grasping tightly the long hair on the mother's
sides, its arms being much too short to encircle her body. Ailie's
heart leapt with an emotion of tender delight as she observed that the
baby monkey's face was white and sweet-looking; yes, we might even go
the length of saying that, for a monkey, it was actually pretty. But it
had a subdued, sorrowful look that was really touching to behold. It
seemed as though that infantine monkey had, in the course of its brief
career, been subjected to every species of affliction, to every
imaginable kind of heart-crushing sorrow, and had remained deeply meek
and humble under it all. Only for one brief instant did a different
expression cross its melancholy face. That was when it first caught
sight of the canoe. Then it exposed its very small teeth and gums after
the fashion of its mother; but repentance seemed to follow instantly,
for the sad look, mixed with a dash of timidity, resumed its place, and
it buried its face in its mother's bosom.

At that moment there was a loud report. A bullet whistled through the
air and struck the old monkey in the breast. We are glad to say, for
the credit of our sailors, that a howl of indignation immediately
followed, and more than one fist was raised to smite the trader who had
fired the shot. But Captain Dunning called the men to order in a
peremptory voice, while every eye was turned towards the tree to observe
the effect of the shot. As for Ailie, she sat breathless with horror at
the cruelty of the act.

The old monkey gave vent to a loud yell, clutched her breast with her
hands, sprang wildly into the air, and fell to the ground. Her leap was
so violent that the young one was shaken off and fell some distance from
its poor mother, which groaned once or twice and then died. The baby
seemed unh