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house, where his family, his friends, his chickens, 

 dogs, and pets spent a great deal of the day, I saw 

 one of these monkeys in a cage. Its large owl's 

 eyes and face looked out of place on a body like 

 a cat 's. A negro had caught it and was keeping 



After photograph by Shiras 



Fig. 75. Marmoset 



it there until the United States fleet went through 

 the Canal in April, when he expected to find some 

 battleship crew that would buy it at a handsome 

 price for a mascot. 



The tame and handsome little marmosets 

 (Fig. 75) I saw only on the streets of Colon, where 

 they were being peddled to tourists. They are 

 about the size of squirrels and look much like 

 them. One thing that marks them as monkeys 

 is that the first toe on each foot has a thumb 

 nail, instead of the squirrel claws that grow from 

 the other toes. This monkey hand is better at 

 picking up things than the ordinary paw. 



