THE DEVOTION OF THOMAS NED. 



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the tail of a monkey. Out of the respect I bear to 

 Thomas Ned I will not pursue this simian simile fur- 



Gathering cocoanuts. 



ther ; but he wondered long why I fell on the sand 

 and rolled in ecstasy of laughter. 



Having thrown down a lot of nuts, he descended 

 quickly, took his cutlass in hand again, and clipped 

 off the outer husk of one of them, trimming it to 



