The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-23

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form of breadfruit and aguacstes)
where wild garlic abounds. and where
plenty of figs, bananas, oranges, pine
apples, cocoanuts, aud other tropic al
fruits can be had for the gathering. II
not too lazy. he keeps goat or two for
| the sake of the milk, which is relished
| best when rancid, and from which the
wives occasionally make curd-oheese.
| AS for meat, there is no end OF fish in
all the lakes and and rivers, if one has
energy enough to angle; birds, monk
eys, and other small ANIMALS in the
woods; and everybody INDUCES
free ~ in the luxury of pigs
of the black, sharp-nosed. slab
sided variety-which the women and
children make pets of, as northern
mon and edifying sight it is to see a
blushing Senorita or a dignifed and
stately Sonora, leading about young
porker by ribbon, the animal-black
as black can be-literally sharing her
| bed and board, and with whom she is
evidently on chummy ard confidential
| terms.
Dame Nature has also generously
provided many other delicacies for IA
tive palaies, such as grasshoppers,
which are dried and pounded; the
eggs OF swamp flies, which are pressed
into cakes; the fi9s themselves,
crushed into jelly; snails, tadpoles,
serpents, etc., etc.
PIGS AND MONKEYS.
| Speaking of pets reminds me of the
monkeys, which abound in every house,
| hold and-next to black pigs-are
prime faYorites, both in an affect onate
and gastrOnomic sense. Most of the
mischieVous little creatures come from
Corona, @ canton On the line Of the
Panama railway. The inhabitants of
| that canton are mostly CARDS and
native negroes, for no white man could
| live there a month, as he would have
to face the deadly alternative of perish
ing with local feVers, or from the effect
of credible quantities of whisky and
quinine required as an antidote.
All about GOrgona, far as the eye can
reach on every hand, stretches great
green swamp covered with an almost
impenitrable mass OF luxurant vegete-
ton. Every evening, Immediately
after sunset, a thick miasma arises
from the swamp and hangs like cloud
abov5 the humid fore5t-or, rather like
pail, for grim death is lurking be-
meath it. This charnel house of nature
is tho monkeys happy hunting
ground, and through its tangled
thicket5 they frisk and frolic
in troops and companies, always headed
by 8 leader or king monkey"
CAPTURING MONKEYS.
When troop of them approach the
town, the natives-apprised of their
proximity by their chattering, or by the
depredehons they commit go eau
tiously to work to capture some of
them. 1t would be of no use to rush
out and give chase, as in his forest
home the monkey is far more feet than
man, being able to penetrate the densest
thickets and To swing himself from tree
to tree with lightning rapiditY; so the
lazy carlbs adopt an easier ana very
simple plan. They cut a hole in a |
cocoanut, Just large enough for mon
KEY 10 insert his Enclosed paw. The
cocoanut is then scraped out, and q
lump of sugar is placed in the hollow.
To this primitive trap q string is at |
tached, and the negroes hide themselves
behind the bushes, lying fat upon the
ground and keeping perfectly quiet |
until the monkey procession passes by. |
AS is well known, curiosity is lead |
ing characteristic of these DarWinian |
connecting links, and the instant mon
keys espy a cOaconut shall lying on the |
ground, he sclmpers down from the
trees and proceed toInspectit carefully, |
followed by all the tribe. The lump OF |
sugar soon attracts their attention,
(they are all very fond of sweets). ana
presently one of them thrusts paw
through the aperture to grasp the COW
eted nldreGp. With the lump clutched |
in his fingers, he finds it impossible to |
withdraw his hand, and his greedy ma
ture will not permit hin, to abandon |
the prize. So, by pulling little bylttle, |
from time to time, upon the string, the |
negroes have no difficulty in drawing |
him nearer to their ambush, with the |
whole company capering madiy about |
him chatteung and gesticQlating as |
only monkeys can.
TIE VICIOUS PRISONERS.
When they have approached within
easy reach, large net is dexterously
thrown out and often as many as
twenty or thirty monkeys are captured |
the vicious little prisoners make things
lively for time, biting their ceptors,
DESTROYING everything within reach and |
making night hideous with their walls i
and lamentations. But they are soon |
tanned, if we'll fed and become so fond |
OF their owner as to follow him about |
constantly. and to initiate his every |
action. The natives Of Gorgona-
many Of whom have never in their lives
b3en ten miles from homs-sell them to |
EMPLOYEES OF the Panama Railway; |
and they, in turn, dispose Of them to
visiting foreigners. or ship them to the |
United States markets.
Considering climatic influences, ig-
norance, etc., the people of New
Granada are highly moral set. To be |
sure the proportion of illigitimate births
is fully SO rer oent.-abo1t the same as
in Paris, that centre OF culture and re-
finement In colder Brussels it is given !
ss 80 per cent in Munich, As; IL
Vienna, 81 AS to crimes against |
human life, there are not one-tenth as
many murders in the all the islhmian |
socti0O 90 in Nav York Gjty aIOuo |