A BATTLE Of GIANTS. 



sometimes wound and drive off the elephant, but this bull is an unusually large 

 fellow, and he made a better fight than usual. But, I say, Jack, we seem to have 

 struck the latitude for all sorts of wild beasts and reptiles." 



"How can that be," asked the Texan, "when the spot we are in has no lati- 

 tude at all, being under the Equator?" 



" You are right on that point, but look at the monkeys off yonder, along the 

 edge of the jungle. They seem to be feeding without any fear of us, who are 

 in plain sight." 



More than a score of the animals with which our friends had, long since, be- 

 come familiar, were playing along the edge of the forest. Some were plucking 

 a species of banana-like fruit, others seemed to be shaking hands and sporting 

 with each other, giving utterance now and then to their peculiar cries, and paying 

 no heed to the two hunters who were within gun-shot. 



" We are after more valuable game than you," said Bob, having watched them 

 some minutes ; " you must know you are of little account, or you wouldn't tempt 

 us in that style." 



Had the hunters ventured nearer, the creatures would have scampered off, but, 

 as the youth had intimated, they were in no danger, for the " game wasn't worth the 

 candle." 



