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the lead. Calling on them to follow, I 

 stepped forward, and was looking about to 

 see which monkey should be my first victim, 

 when, all at once, I felt myself covered 

 from head to foot with them ; there must 

 have been about a dozen upon me when 

 I called out for assistance, but, on looking 

 for my party, I saw them some distance 

 off, making for home as fast as their legs 

 would carry them, leaving me to my fate 

 without the slightest compunction. My 

 assailants were not inactive all this time ; 

 they were biting me in the most cruel 

 manner (and let me here assure my 

 readers that monkeys can bite) ; it ap- 

 peared to me that each one was, in- 

 dependently, trying to take the largest 

 mouthful he could get out of my un- 

 fortunate body. 



The agony I endured is not to be 



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