170 AUGUST 



Jogee thought he could, with every other avail- 

 able man to help to carry them. 



"Begin at once," I said. "Get your men. 

 This is a splendid time to try the experiment, after 

 so much rain, and more coming." 



I got it done in one day and finished. What was 

 the master's astonishment, on walking round there 

 this morning at his usual rate of 4 miles an hour (at 

 which pace, I tell him, it is impossible to garden), 

 to see a tall row of thick palms, suddenly ! where 

 before was nothing all beautifully fresh and green. 



"You have been going it," was his remark. 

 They absolutely did not know they had been moved. 

 They were not out of the earth more than twenty 

 minutes, for I had each one planted at once in the 

 pits ready for them, and well stamped in. It was 

 such a noisy business getting it done, but I am 

 delighted with the look of it now, and it answers 

 the purpose admirably. The dogs have been wildly 

 excited with the fallen tree, and explored it all 

 over, especially as it retained a very strong odour 

 of the monkey among its upper branches, now near 

 the ground. 



To-day the monkey himself made his appearance, 



