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In a moment a second yell from Lobo, followed by silence, announced that he was dead; and the sound of the howling when near convinced Rondon that the dog had been killed by an Indian, doubtless with two arrows. Probably the Indian was howling to lure the spider-monkeys toward him.
But the fact is, you're all wrong there, Jack: it's the babbies I likes I likes to see them both together, hanging at the niggers' breasts, I always think of two spider-monkeys nursing two kittens. 'I knows the women, but I never knows the children. It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other; ain't it, Bill? 'Yes; like two bright bullets out of the same mould.
'I am Mary Alda Underwood, said the girl abruptly; 'and I'm sure there must be a very naughty boy here. He had put these poor little things up a tree, and run away. 'No, no! He only put us up because Tina bothered about it! screamed Lance and Robina at once; 'he wasn't naughty. We were being monkeys. 'Black spider-monkeys, added Robina.
These monkeys are known by the name of "ateles," or "spider-monkeys;" and certainly their long thin arms and legs, and longer tails, greatly resemble the legs of spiders. They continued to watch us, but did not recross the river, being evidently satisfied that they were safe on the further side; though, had I been anxious, I might easily have brought down one or two of them.
But the fact is, you're all wrong there, Jack, its the babbies I likes I likes to see them both together, hanging at the niggers' breasts, I always think of two spider-monkeys nursing two kittens." "I knows the women, but I never knows the children. It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other; ain't it, Bill?" "Yes; like two bright bullets out of the same mould.
While the loads were being brought down the left bank, Luiz and Antonio Correa, our two best watermen, started to take a canoe down the right side, and Colonel Rondon walked ahead to see anything he could about the river. He was accompanied by one of our three dogs, Lobo. After walking about a kilometre he heard ahead a kind of howling noise, which he thought was made by spider-monkeys.
Among the most curious of the monkey tribe are the ateles, or spider-monkeys, called also Cebidae, and, by the natives sapajous, one of the species of the coaita, or quata. As they are seen gambolling among the trees, with their long limbs, and still longer tails, ever actively employed, their resemblance to huge spiders is remarkable.
In the spider-monkeys, the tail, as a prehensile organ, reaches its highest degree of perfection, and they may therefore be considered as the extreme development of the American type of apes. Their tails are endowed with the most wonderful degree of flexibility.
I think it likely from what I have seen of the habits of the spider-monkeys that they defend themselves from this peril by keeping two or three together, thus assisting each other, and that it is only when the eagle finds one separated from its companions that it dares to attack it.
On advancing into the forest in the morning, three or four may be seen seated on the upper branches of a tree shaggy-haired animals, with long prehensile tails like those of the spider-monkeys hideous-looking creatures, with pyramidical heads, the upper jaw descending much below the cranium, while the branches of the lower one ascend very high, for the purpose of containing a bony, drum-shaped expansion of the larynx, which gives to its voice that prodigious volume of sound which makes night hideous.
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