262 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
can hold in their arms. In one of my monkey-hunting 
excursions I stopped at the house of a very agreeable 
planter, in the mountains. He declared that one year 
the monkeys nearly destroyed his crop; and not only 
ate the cacao seeds, but brought the empty pods and 
placed them on his doorstep, thus adding insult to 
injury. 
