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Updated: May 7, 2025
Its disposition seemed wild and fierce, and it is said by the natives to be remarkably swift. Hog, babi: that breed we call Chinese. The wild hog, babi utan. Dog, anjing: those brought from Europe lose in a few years their distinctive qualities, and degenerate at length into the cur with erect ears, kuyu, vulgarly called the pariah dog.
But it was not so easy to hit the shark's mouth as he supposed, even when the creature had turned on his back, and the first kuyu only struck one of his teeth and rolled into the water. However, the second time the monkey had better luck, and the fruit fell right in. 'Ah, how good! cried the shark.
'After you have lived on fish for fifty years you begin to feel you would like a change. And I am so very, very tired of the taste of salt. 'Well, I don't like salt myself, said the monkey; 'so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it, and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head.
'I am sure I am, answered the shark, 'and I will swim as quickly as I can, and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water. With a sigh of relief the monkey caught hold of the nearest branch and swung himself up. 'Wait for me here, he called out to the shark.
'After you have lived on fish for fifty years you begin to feel you would like a change. And I am so very, very tired of the taste of salt. 'Well, I don't like salt myself, said the monkey; 'so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it, and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head.
'I am sure I am, answered the shark, 'and I will swim as quickly as I can, and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water. With a sigh of relief the monkey caught hold of the nearest branch and swung himself up. 'Wait for me here, he called out to the shark.
'Send me another, please. And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them. 'It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children, he said, at length, 'but if you are here at the same time to-morrow I will give you another treat.
'Send me another, please, and the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them. 'It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children, he said at length, 'but if you are here at the same time to-morrow I will give you another treat.
But it was not so easy to hit the shark's mouth as he supposed, even when the creature had turned on his back, and the first kuyu only struck one of his teeth and rolled into the water. However, the second time the monkey had better luck, and the fruit fell right in. 'Ah, how good! cried the shark.
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