CHAPTER XX 



LEAVE THE ISLAND FOR OUR CAMP — MONKEYS AMONG 

 THE TREES— FIND EVERYTHING UNTOUCHED — I 

 GET LOST FOLLOWING NGINAS — AM LUCKY ENOUGH 

 TO FIND KOOLA NUTS — CAMP UNDER THE KOOLA 

 TREE — ANOTHER NIGHT IN THE FOREST 



THE time had come for us to leave the island and 

 go back to our camp. I was very much pleased 

 with our trip. Now I kept the days carefully. We 

 cooked hard all the turtle's eggs we had and roasted 

 the fish we had caught. Fish tasted very good, for 

 we had been so long without it. Rogala loaded the 

 raft with our outfit. On his return, after landing the 

 latter, I embarked and bade good-bye to the island 

 and to the sun, the moon, and the stars. 



It was not long before I heard in the distance a 

 noise like a storm amongst the branches of the trees. 

 The sound was peculiar. Monkeys were coming to- 

 wards me. This noise always proclaimed their ap- 

 proach. When they came in sight, I saw there was 

 a troop of about thirty of them ; they were ndovas. 

 On their march onward, they flung themselves from 



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