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Updated: June 20, 2025
But before they could get into the Land of the Monkeys, they came to a steep cliff with a river flowing below. This was the end of the Kingdom of Jolliginki; and the Land of the Monkeys was on the other side across the river. And Jip, the dog, looked down over the edge of the steep, steep cliff and said, "Golly! How are we ever going to get across?" "Oh, dear!" said Gub-Gub.
Poor Gub-Gub was dreadfully frightened; and the pushmi-pullyu began to sharpen his horns for a fight by rubbing them on the mast of the ship; while Jip kept springing into the air and barking and calling Ben Ali bad names in dog-language. But presently something seemed to go wrong with the pirates; they stopped laughing and cracking jokes; they looked puzzled; something was making them uneasy.
Can't blame her for getting scared! I wonder who he'll go and kiss this time. Silly business!" Then the pushmi-pullyu, the white mouse, Gub-Gub, Dab-Dab, Jip and the owl, Too-Too, went on to the ship with the Doctor. But Chee-Chee, Polynesia and the crocodile stayed behind, because Africa was their proper home, the land where they were born.
"What's 'cutterigsloop'?" whispered Gub-Gub, turning to Jip. "Sh! That's the kind of a ship the man had," said Jip. "Keep still, can't you?" "Oh," said the pig, "is that all? I thought it was something to drink." So the Doctor left the boy to play with the animals in the dining-room, and went upstairs to look for passing porpoises.
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him. So Gub-Gub went and woke the Doctor who was taking a nap. "Listen," whispered the parrot, when John Dolittle's face appeared: "Prince Bumpo is coming here to-night to see you.
"This is a great nuisance," said the Doctor. "I really must get back to Puddleby. That poor sailor will think I've stolen his ship if I don't get home soon.... I wonder if those hinges are loose." But the door was very strong and firmly locked. There seemed no chance of getting out. Then Gub-Gub began to cry again. All this time Polynesia was still sitting in the tree in the palace-garden.
For while his back was turned, the monkeys quick as a flash had made themselves into a bridge, just by holding hands and feet. And the big one shouted to the Doctor, "Walk over! Walk over all of you hurry!" Gub-Gub was a bit scared, walking on such a narrow bridge at that dizzy height above the river. But he got over all right; and so did all of them. John Dolittle was the last to cross.
All they could tell us was that the man isn't in the sea. We don't want to know where he ISN'T we want to know where he IS." "Oh, don't talk so much," said Gub-Gub. "It's easy to talk; but it isn't so easy to find a man when you have got the whole world to hunt him in. Maybe the fisherman's hair has turned white, worrying about the boy; and that was why the eagles didn't find him.
"My gracious!" said Gub-Gub in a hushed voice. "What a height! I wonder they don't scorch their feathers so near the sun!" They were gone a long time. And when they came back it was almost night. And the eagles said to the Doctor, "We have searched all the seas and all the countries and all the islands and all the cities and all the villages in this half of the world. But we have failed.
And after Jip had gone and shown his golden collar to the conceited collie next-door, he came back and began running round the garden like a crazy thing, looking for the bones he had buried long ago, and chasing the rats out of the tool-shed; while Gub-Gub dug up the horseradish which had grown three feet high in the corner by the garden-wall.
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