BEAUTIFUL MONKEYS. 287 
expense, when Saet, an enormously fat boy, with thick skin, 
who was called * Zebra Hide,” rushed up to assist his com- 
rade, and got himself stuck in the sand. Both “Sleepy 
Eyes” and “ Zebra Hide” were soon rescued, but it was a 
tussle pulling out “ Zebra Hide,” owing to his great weight. 
We camped at mid-day in a grove of duhm palms, in 
which there were troops of the most beautiful monkeys 
I have ever seen. I did not know at the time to what 
species these monkeys belonged, as I had never seen them 
in any museum; but I found out afterwards that they were 
a species called Colobus guereza. They were large, and 
covered with thick black fur, with a long fringe of white 
hair hanging down the sides of their bodies, and their 
beauty was further increased by a long black tail tipped 
with a white brush that waved gracefully to and fro as they 
jumped about the tree-tops. I found out on my return 
home that few specimens of these monkeys have reached 
the civilized world, but that they have been seen by 
