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Updated: May 19, 2025
Inside that notch in the cliffs must be the wooded bay, whence we picked up the shells among the fallen leaves and flowers. From under that dark wall beyond it the Guacharos must be just trooping out for their nightly forage, as they had trooped out since He alone who made them knows how long. The outline of Huevos, the outline of Monos, were growing lower and grayer astern.
I will not say, then, commence with the moment of life's cessation but commence with that sad, sad instant when, the fever having abandoned you, you sank into a breathless and motionless torpor, and I pressed down your pallid eyelids with the passionate fingers of love. Monos. One word first, my Una, in regard to man's general condition at this epoch.
I vouch for nothing, save that I heard this strange humming more than once. As for the cause of it, I can only say, as was said of yore, that 'I hold it for rashness to determine aught amid such fertility of Nature's wonders. One afternoon we made an attempt on the other Guacharo cave, which lies in the cliff on the landward side of the Monos Boca.
"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.
Soon followed the "Colloquy of Monos and Una," in which in the exquisite prose poetry of which The Dreamer was a consummate master, his imagination sought to pierce the veil between this world and the next to lay bare the secrets of the soul's passage into the "Valley of the Shadow."
A detachment of regular soldiers from Fort Miller under Lieutenant Moore, U.S.A., was at once dispatched to capture or punish the murderers. Lieutenant Moore entered the Valley in the night and surprised and captured a party of five Indians, but an alarm was given and Tenaya and his people fled from their huts and escaped to the Monos on the east side of the Range.
Every intending purchaser, therefore, whether living at Toco, Guayaguayare, Monos, or Icacos, the four extreme points of the Island of Trinidad, was compelled to go to Port of Spain, forty or fifty miles distant, through an almost roadless country, to compete at the Sub-Intendant's auction sales, with every probability of being outbid in the end, and having his long-deposited money returned to him after all his pains.
'Couldn't see 'em fer cinders, he described it, and the monica stuck by me.... Monica? From monos. The tramp nickname. "'Bound south, I answered. 'And how's Slim? "'Bum. Bulls is horstile. "'Where's the push? "'At the hang-out. I'll put you wise. "'Who's the main guy? "'Me, and don't yer ferget it." The lingo was rippling from Leith's lips, but perforce I stopped him. "Pray translate.
The line-of-battle ships anchored in the magnificent land- locked harbour of Chaguaramas, just inside the Boca de Monos. The frigates and transports went up within five miles of Port of Spain.
Its brilliant flowers are the dearest of all unfulfilled dreams, and its raging volcanoes are the passions of the most turbulent and unhallowed of hearts. "These; things are in the future." Sophocles Antig: Una. "Born again?" Monos. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born again."
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