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related to him the aSair as it happenedj and h.ow the negro had 

 passed the night in the company of the owl. The wounded man 

 died, and was carried away and buried ; vv^iile Ba-Ngetah got up 

 and journeyed with the negro to the port of Makallah ^ and sold 

 him to Al-G^'aiiti? I was there when Ba-Nqetah took the slave 



ft/ ** v *^ 



away, but was not present when he returned, and so I cannot tell 

 you for how much he sold him. 



X. 



Story of the Monkey. 



{A true story, ^ 



There was once a native of Yaman, who brought up a monkey 

 and trained it to the songs of negroes and to the tune of the guitar ; 

 and whatever he ordered it to do, it would do. One day, the man 

 said to himself, *'I'll travel." So he journeyed from country to 

 country, till he came to Java. There he amused the people with 

 the pranks of the monkey. One day he gave a performance under 

 the governor's house; and at night went to the house of two 

 chums and slept there. These men, becoming aware of the money 

 he had, rose up in the middle of the night and killed him ; and, 



In tbe morning 

 they let the monkey loose in the market place. The monkey then 

 ran through the market crying out, till it arrived at the governor's 

 house. The governor beard the cries of the monktey and said, 

 " What's that ? " They said, '' It is a monkey crying : we do not 

 know whose it is ; but probably it belongs to the stranger who 

 gave a peformance here yesterday." He said, '* See what is the 

 matter with the monkey/' Then the police came, and the governor 

 ordered them, saying, '' Go with this monkey." So the monkey 

 went before and they followed, till it brought them to tbe house 

 where its master was buried. It went in and they followed it. 

 It went up to the spot where the man was buried, and began to dig. 

 The police pushed it aside, and dug, aud found the corpse. They 



seized the inmates of tlie house and took them to the governor 



g dug a grave 



The latter questioned them and they confessed ; " For the sake of 

 his money we killed him." Tiie governor sentenced them to six- 

 teen years' imprisonment. He then took the monkey and sent it to 

 Aden, and from Aden it was taken to Yaman, and I was there 

 when it arrived. 



The Haunted Mountain Pass. 



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places in the afternoon, and also after nightfall. One night three 



^ Makallah in Arabia ; a port of Hazramaut. 

 AUG'aytl for Al-Qu^ayttj the name of a chief. 



^ Natives nf RnTvnmrymt- 



3 Natives of Hazramaut 



