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terribles los Zambos. Terrible monkeys these Zam- 

 bos." 



" Monkeys ! " cried I. 



" Monkeys ! " repeated poor Rowley, raising him- 

 self up into a sitting posture by the help of his hands. 

 " Monkeys apes by Jove ! "We've been fighting 

 with monkeys, and it's they who have mauled us in 

 this way. Well, Jonathan Rowley, think of your 

 coming from old Virginny to Mexico to be whipped 

 by a monkey ! It's gone goose with your character. 

 You can never show your face in the States again. 

 Whipped by an ape ! an ape, with a tail and a hairy 



Lord ! whipped by a monkey ! " 



And the ludicrousness of the notion overcoming 

 his mortification, and the pain of his wounds and 

 bites, he sank back upon the bed of blankets and 

 banana leaves, laughing as well as his swollen face 

 and sausage-looking lips would allow him. 



It was as much as I could do to persuade myself 

 that the carcass lying before me had never been in- 

 habited by a human soul. It was humiliating to 

 behold the close affinity between this huge ape and 

 our own species. Had it not been for the tail, I 

 could have fancied I saw the dead body of some 

 prairie-hunter dressed in skins. It was exactly like 

 a powerful, well-grown man ; and even the expression 

 of the face had more of bad human passions than of 

 animal instinct. The feet and thighs were those of 

 a muscular man ; the legs rather too curved and calf- 



