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Dain Matara, the Bugis, Excursions in Celebes. Dispute with the Rajah's son-in-law. Baboon shot. Appearance of the country. Visit the Resident. Barometrical observations. The Bugis. Geography. Coral reefs. Visit the Rana of Lamatte. Population and products of the country.
"Avaunt, you worst of sinners, I must save my soul," he cried. "Confound your soul," says Billy, "then you shall not save your hide." Acquaintance then be made soon with the end of the fore brace, It would have made you laugh to see his methodisty face; He grinn'd like a roast monkey, and he howl'd like a baboon, He had a dose from Billy, that he didn't forget soon.
He awoke with the fright, got up instantly, and walked to a table which was in the middle of the room. He was then quite awake, and quite conscious of the articles around him; but close by the wall in the end of the apartment he distinctly saw the baboon making the same grimaces which he had seen in his dreams; and this spectre continued visible for about half a minute."
The Baboon is already so largely alliterative in himself that it was an excess of generosity that made one recently attack an infant under such circumstances as to allow the report to be headed, "Baby Bitten by a Baboon in a Backyard at Bow." Alliteration has become a mighty factor in politics: it is fast replacing epigram, while its effects on moral character are tremendous.
Apparently I was in the hollow cup of an extinct crater, for on all sides towered perpendicular cliffs of dark granite-like rock, so smooth and unbroken for the most part that a baboon would scarce have found foothold upon them indeed, in many places they actually overhung.
Yet all these appearances have been given I beg pardon will be given by the learned of future ages, to the Ashimah of the Syrians. Put on your spectacles, and tell me what it is. What is it? "Bless me! it is an ape!" True a baboon; but by no means the less a deity. His name is a derivation of the Greek Simia what great fools are antiquarians! But see! see! yonder scampers a ragged little urchin.
The brute was eventually shot! "This experience of mine," Tristram added, "is of the greatest value, for it has thoroughly convinced me of one thing at least and that that apes have spirits! And if that be so, so must all other kinds of animals. Of course they must." Phantasms of Cat and Baboon
"When I was at Sherbro, one Mr. Cummerbus, whom I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, made me a present of one of these strange animals, which are called by the natives Boggoe: it was a she-cub, of six months' age, but even then larger than a Baboon.
Kees still persisted in his intention, till we were almost out of his sight, when he found himself at length compelled to dismount, upon which both the baboon and dog exerted all their speed to overtake us. The latter, however, gave him the start, and kept a good look-out after him, that he might not serve him in the same manner again.
Perhaps all of his message had not been delivered before Reardon closed the tube, but the chief got enough of it for all practical purposes. He caught one word "Renegade"; a word so terrible that it left the chief engineer speechless with fury, and before he could call the skipper a baboon, the golden opportunity was gone. He closed the tube with a sigh.
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