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Updated: June 5, 2025
You may handle the quaintest of ideas carried out in ivory; a skeleton carrying a baboon calculated to beat Holbein's "Dance of Death" all to pieces; skulls with cobras intertwined indeed, the serpent is everywhere; and all with some mystic meaning. "The date of the workmanship of these," said Sir Robert, "must go back for centuries." "I should think to the very beginning!"
But again for any little acts of kindness they expressed no kind of appreciation or gratitude. Physically they were men and women, but otherwise as far removed from the Anglo-Saxon as the oyster from the baboon, or the mole from the horse. On the fourteenth day from parting with the brig we made the palms on Cape Mesurado, the entrance to Monrovia Harbor.
Bruiser had sat on a trapeze far up in the cage, watching the proceedings with resentful eyes, perhaps wondering how he might administer a rebuke to the keeper. All at once the baboon saw his opportunity. The keeper had stooped over to pick up something from the floor of the boat, as he stood at the open door of the cage in the rear. Bruiser projected himself toward the opening like a catapult.
Raising his great hands until they touched his chin, he rubbed them softly, and softly chuckled; looking as like a malevolent baboon, I thought, as anything human could look. 'You see, he said, still hugging himself in that unpleasant way, and shaking his head at me, 'you're quite a dangerous rival, Master Copperfield. You always was, you know.
He was of a dull coal black, without a single high light on him anywhere, as though he had been sand-papered, had prominent teeth, like those of a baboon, in a wrinkled, wizened monkey face, across which were three tattooed bands, and possessed a little, long-armed, spare figure, bent and wiry.
Great and little animals are there in quantities, and very different from ours; among which I saw boars of frightful form so that a dog of the Irish breed dared not face them. With a cross-bow I had wounded an animal which exactly resembles a baboon only that it was much larger and has a face like a human being.
"I give it up, unless it was a bear," said Tom. "I think I know what it was," said the captain. "A big baboon or a gorilla." "I guess you are right, captain," answered Tom. "I saw a gorilla in a menagerie, and it was exactly like that beast. But what a big fellow he was!" "Gorillas are highly dangerous, especially when cornered," said Captain Blossom.
"Where is Mappo now?" asked a small baboon, which is another kind of monkey. "Oh," replied the gray-haired chap, "Mappo went to a far country on a trip, and had many wonderful adventures. He joined a circus, and was put in a book." "The lions are on a night-hunt," said a middle-sized monkey, who climbed down a tree to take a look.
We went on a little further, when I again fired and brought down another parrot. Just as I pulled the trigger I caught sight between the trees of a face watching us. At the first glance I thought it must be some huge baboon, but still it looked human though covered thickly with hair. I was a little in advance of Blyth.
A baboon, trained to climb the cocoa palms and throw down the nuts, is an inmate of most of the houses. The people lead strange and uneventful lives. The men are not inclined to much effort except in fishing or hunting, and, where they possess rice land, in ploughing for rice. They are said to be quiet, temperate, jealous, suspicious, some say treacherous, and most bigoted Mussulmen.
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