d shrieking in the greatest
excitement. Prompted by curiosity, others would quickly appear,--
especially mammas; accompanied by delicate-looking monkeys whom we took
to be unmarried young ladies. Indeed, they showed that curiosity
affects the breasts of female monkeys as powerfully as it is said to do
that of human beings of the fair sex. They afforded us great amusement;
till at last, after an hour or so, Uncle Paul, who had been sleeping,
suddenly started up and gave a loud sneeze, when they all scampered up a
tree; and as we looked up, we could see them making their way along the
topmost branches, till they disappeared in the distance.

Kallolo told us that this species of monkey is known as the white
uakari. Marian said that she should like to have one. He replied that
they were very difficult to catch, and that unless taken very young,
being of a sensitive disposition, they speedily pine and die. He told
us that the native, when he wishes to catch one alive, goes forth with
his blowpipe and arrows tipped with diluted woorali poison. This
poison, though it produces a deadly effect on all animals, as well as on
the natives, who exist without salt, has very little effect on
salt-consuming Europeans. Salt, indeed, is the only antidote to the
poison. The hunter, therefore, when in search of the white uakari,
supplies himself with a small quantity of salt. As soon as he has shot
the monkey, he follows it through the forest, till, the poison beginning
to take effect, it falls from the tree. He takes care to be close under
the bough to catch it in his arms, and immediately puts a pinch of salt
into its mouth. In a short time the little creature revives; and in
most instances not appearing to be much the worse for the poison, it is
led away captive. A young one thus entrapped speedily becomes tame, and
is much prized, as an interesting pet, by the white inhabitants.
Kallolo promised, as soon as he could manufacture a blowpipe, to try and
catch a young uakari for Marian; and he said that he was sure, under the
instruction of Quacko, it would soon become civilised.

Hitherto Quacko and the ara parrot had been our chief sources of
amusement. The two creatures had become great friends, though Quacko
now and then showed an inclination to pick the feathers out of his
companion's back; but when he made the attempt, she resented it by a
severe peck on his head--and one day caught the tip of his tail, and
gave it a bi