Oaparo 
1894 
March 14 
Monkeys 
roaring 
The big tree toads made a deafening clamor during 
the whole night and I also heard the che-wee- o of 
Nyctidromus and the hoot of the Owl that calls ho; ho; ho ; 
hoa, besides the cat-like cry of the Owl heard at the Rest 
House. 
At daybreak this morning the Carrs called me to 
hear the Howling Monkeys. I tore a blanket from the bed, 
thrust my feet into a pair of slippers and rushed out. 
The east was flushing with rose and salmon tints but the 
little clearing about the house was still filled with the 
soft, dewy twilight. Our House.Wren had just begun singing 
but none of the other birds about the clearing were as 
yet astir, Ho sooner had I got fairly out into the open 
air than I heard the Monkeys in the distance to the east¬ 
ward. Indeed, for nearly half an hour they kept up an 
incessant roaring. Carr said that they were about two mile 
off and not more than four or five were roaring. I should 
have supposed that they were within a quarter of a mile 
and that there were several hundreds of them. The sound 
was wholly unlike what I had supposed. It was almost 
exactly like the distant, muffled roar of a great eity-- 
London, for example — heard from some quiet.spot. It rose 
and fell but never wholly died away until just before it 
ceased altogether. 
