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duce a social character among the race, wile 

 away the tedious hours, which pass but tardily 

 in a ship, and dissipate the monotony of the 

 voyage : to this the little monkeys would not 

 accede ; they treated him as an outcast, and all 

 cordially united to repel the approaches of the 

 " little man in black," by chattering, and various 

 other hostile movements peculiar to them. 



Ungka, thus repelled in his kind endeavours to 

 establish something like sociality amongst them, 

 determined in his own mind to annoy and punish 

 them for their impudence ; so, the next time they 

 united, as before, in a body, on his approach, 

 he watched the opportunity, and when one was off 

 his guard, seized a rope, and, swinging towards 

 him, caught himb^ the tail, and hauled away upon 

 it, much to the annoyance of the owner, who had 

 no idea that such a retaliation was to take place ; he 

 continued pulling upon it, as if determined to de- 

 tach it, until the agility and desperation of the 

 monkey, at being so treated, obliged him to relin- 

 quish his hold. But it not unfrequently hap- 

 pened that he made his way up the rigging, 

 dragging the monkey by the tail after him, and 

 thus made him follow his course most unwil- 

 lingly. If in his ascent he required both hands, 

 he would pass the tail of his captive into the 



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