52 BIG GAME FIELDS 



sporting and frisking about from limb to limb 

 and branch to branch, with such strange, rapid 

 movements and unerring judgment that we all 

 sat motionless watching the performance. Sud- 

 denly the leader an old bearded chap must 

 have given the danger signal in monkey language, 

 for all at once they became quiet and seemed to 

 have suddenly disappeared. But upon looking 

 carefully I could make out one after another in- 

 distinctly, as they sat motionless, close to the tree 

 trunk, or all but lost themselves to view in a clump 

 of leaves. After they had satisfied their curiosity 

 and I suppose deciding that their great height 

 rendered them quite safe they moved about 

 again, seemingly unconcerned, except for one or 

 two that would stop and peer away out over a 

 branch, as much as to say: "Well, why don't 

 you go on about your business?" which we finally 

 did. 



