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Pàgina 245 - A monkey was now seen attaching his tail to the lowest on the bridge, another girdled him in similar manner, and another, and so on, until a dozen more were added to the string. These last were all powerful fellows; and running up to a high limb, they lifted the bridge into a position almost horizontal. Then a scream from the last monkey of the new formation warned the...
Pàgina 245 - ... lifted the bridge into a position almost horizontal. Then a scream from the last monkey of the new formation warned the tail end that all was ready, and the next moment the whole chain was swung over and landed safely on the opposite bank. The lowermost links now dropped off like a melting candle, while the higher ones leaped to the branches and came down by the trunk.
Pàgina 244 - The chain was now fast at both ends, forming a complete suspension-bridge, over which the whole troop, to the number of four or five hundred, passed with the rapidity of thought. It was one of the most comical sights I ever beheld, to witness the quizzical expression of countenances along that living chain ! The troop was now on the other side, but how were the animals forming the bridge to get themselves over? This was the question that suggested itself.
Pàgina 244 - The living chain now commenced swinging backwards and forwards, like the pendulum of a clock. The motion was slight at first, but gradually increased, the lowermost monkey striking his hands violently on the earth, as he passed the tangent of the oscillating curve. Several others upon the limbs above aided the movement. This continued until the monkey at the end of the chain was thrown among the branches of a tree on the opposite bank. Here, after two or three vibrations, he clutched a limb, and...
Pàgina 245 - But then the end of the chain on the other side was much lower down, and number one, with half a dozen of his neighbours, would be dashed against the opposite bank, or soused into the water. Here, then, was a problem, and we waited with some curiosity for its solution. It was soon solved. A monkey was now seen attaching his tail to the lowest on the bridge, another girdled him in a similar manner, and another, and so on, until a dozen more were added to the string. These last were all powerful fellows;...
Pàgina 242 - Oh, no!" answered the Frenchman; " monkeys would rather go into fire than water. If they cannot leap the stream, they will bridge it." " Bridge it ! and how ?" " Stop a moment, captain ; you shall see." The half-human voices now sounded nearer, and we could perceive that the animals were approaching the spot where we lay. Presently they appeared upon the opposite bank, headed by an old grey chieftain, and officered like so many soldiers.
Pàgina 244 - ... several turns of his tail around it, slipped off, and hung head downwards. The next on the limb, also a stout one, climbed down the body of the first, and whipping his tail tightly round the neck and forearm of the latter, dropped off in his turn, and hung head down. The third repeated this...
Pàgina 244 - This movement was executed adroitly, just at the culminating point of the oscillation, in order to save the intermediate links from the violence of a too sudden jerk ! The chain was now fast at both ends, forming a complete suspension bridge, over which the whole troop, to the number of four or five hundred, passed with the rapidity of thought. It was one of the most comical sights I ever beheld, to witness the quizzical expression of countenances along that living chain...
Pàgina 244 - ... living chain now commenced swinging backwards and forwards, like the pendulum of a clock. The motion was slight at first, but gradually increased, the lowermost monkey striking his hands violently on the earth as he came down again. Several others of those above him aided the movement. This continued until the monkey at the end of the chain was thrown among the branches of a tree on the opposite bank. Here he clutched a limb, and held fast. This movement was executed adroitly, just at the right...
Pàgina 72 - ... but thinly inhabited; but here you meet with people of the African race, and nowhere else in Mexico. In the towns — and there are but few — you see the yellow mulatto, and the pretty quadroon with her black waving hair; but in the sparse settlements of the country you meet with a strange race — the cross of the negro with the ancient inhabitants of the country — the