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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Trees great trees like the Magdalena always nothing but trees wild and bad everything. Ayacanora won't talk about that." "Do you mind anything that grew on those trees?" asked Yeo, eagerly. She laughed. "Silly! Flowers and fruit, and nuts grow on all trees, and monkey-cups too. Ayacanora climbed up after them when she was wild. I won't tell any more."
Ay and the devil is surely none other than the devil Don Francisco Xararte! Oh dear! oh dear! oh dear! my sweet young lady! my pretty little maid! and don't you know me? Don't you know Salvation Yeo, that carried you over the mountains, and used to climb for the monkey-cups for you, my dear young lady?
And for food we had fruits, such as we could find, and water we got from the leaves of certain lilies which grew on the bark of trees, which I found by seeing the monkeys drink at them; and the little maid called them monkey-cups, and asked for them continually, making me climb for them.
"But who taught you to call them monkey-cups?" asked Yeo, trembling with excitement. "Monkey's drink; mono drink." "Mono?" said Yeo, foiled on one cast, and now trying another. "How did you know the beasts were called monos?" "She might have heard it coming down with us," said Cary, who had joined the group. "Ay, monos," said she, in a self-justifying tone. "Faces like little men, and tails.
Domingos had meantime been boiling some coffee; as we had now no sugar, the fresh milk proved a most valuable acquisition. The Indians, however, recommended us not to take much of it. We kept it, intending to use it again in the evening, but on taking off the lid of one of the monkey-cups, we found that our milk had thickened into a stiff and excessively tenacious glue.
At one side of the tableland there was a break in its surface and a bench of some dozen acres lay perhaps twenty feet below our retreat. We cautiously worked our way down to this portion and there to our delight found a number of fan-shaped traveller's palms and monkey-cups full of sweet water, which with two wild sago palms we calculated would keep us alive a few days at all events.
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