The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-11

rubber hunting.
SOMETHING ABOUT TIE MONKEY FAD.
Since monkey keeping has become
a fad among fashionable ladies, it is a
great pity that most OF those found
along the Amazon will not bear trans
porting. Among the smaller varieties,
from tiny ones not longer than your
finger when full grown to gOlden-armed
moss monkeys averaging loot in
length mot counting the two or three
feet long tail), are many that would
make the most intelligent and aiIec-
Tomato as we'll rs the prettiest OF pets,
though all are inclined to mischieyous-
ness rs sparks TO Ay upward Again
and again have tried the experiment
OF transporting TO the North those va
rietics that are never found Tor sale,
but in spite Of the greatest care, in
cages lined with cotton wool so as to
exclude every breath OF cold air, they
invariably go to the monkey heaven at
the first approach Of winter.
For days and days We steam slowly
along between fiat and mostly marshy
banks, generally alligator infested, aud
always backed by q dense wall OF YER
dure aRame with gorgeous flowers.
Most Amazonian travellers complain OF
the monoGony OF long voyage, but it
has never become so to us. We're
there nothing to look at but the SPLEEN
did palms it would be enough TO keep
us profoundly interested. Among a
thousand varieties OF those monarchs
OF the tropical forests the assai palm Is
most prominent, with its crown OF
plum-liEe leaves and pendant bushes OF
berry-like fruit.
THE FOREST pRrtIyAL
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90 cou'Pac' 10 ''ie 'N'eA'' '""' w
can seldom see INTO IL more imam d 10"
feet, but the variety oil plant life is
overwhelmingly grea;. However. much
tho early Friars may have iibbed about
the beasts and reptiles and female war
Elors OF those regions 81 conosrnin s Ky
magnificence Of the forests, simply be-
cause it is beyond the power OF mortal
pen or tongue TO do them justica.
Besides groves OF towering palms
that look like vast halls set with Egyp-
tian columns, there are even taller
trees, spreading over the rest a thick
roof which looks like vast green UNI
brelIa. There are leaves varying in color
from the ,lightest to the darkest shades
of green, from pale yellow to black
trunks smooth as glass, or ringed and
furrowed up and down, or twiued with
a tangled network OF vines, ranging
u. IN tNIa0ty
white TO dull red. But the great mass
OF forest, at least that close to shore, is
composed OF tall slim stems crowded so
closely together as to resembles natural
picket fence, the whole completely COW
cred with the most splendid orchids
and other brilliant flowers, panorama
uneaualed throughout the great round
world.
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lhough NHiases are IL" "nu i"F oe
tween, there are many waterslde nuts,
isolated or in groups, and after the first
fow dovs wa crnise so close to shore
that WE could almost talk with their in
hahitants In every case the forest
crowds the easa close to the waters
edge: and a description OF one ANA
zonian home will answer for all the
rest, with the sole execution that IN
those places when ats sure uot 70 DS " te
v vno The houses Sre set ppon stills so
TO speak, or piles driven into the Shiny
ooze, each with its little garden for the
cultivation OF mandioca, elevated in the
same manner. The frame is made OF
slender tree trunks, crossing each 9TH
or at right angles, with palm leaves wo-
ven in the interstices and spread on top
OF the thatch; the overhanging roof
covered a wide, open porch extending
across the front. This porch, which
is as deep as good sized apartment is
the most important part OF the house,
as it answers for Kitchen, dining and
sitting rooms, the interior being nsed
only to sleep in, or for shelter during
seyerest rains. The hard mud floors
are always cleanly swept, and one fruit
full source OF dirt aud disease which is
found in the houses OF our own poor,
viz. beds and bedding, is lacking here,
the clean, cool hammock swungfrom tho
rafters being the universal and only
sleeping arrangement.
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pass through its easterly and wider one
and enter tho undisputed Amazon by
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hsnI ws ssa Tia frat bieh iand-a
ss a IF JsnseIv.wonded blnfTs nerhaps
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hocL from the riysr The captain's
p er chsrt shSSs three other dis.
iinct grouns Of hills Of similar appear