262 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



can hold in their arms. In one of my monkey-hunting 

 excursions I stopped at the house of a very agreeable 

 planter, in the mountains. He declared that one year 

 the monkeys nearly destroyed his crop ; and not only 

 ate the cacao seeds, but brought the empty pods and 

 placed them on his doorstep, thus adding insult to 

 injury. 



