The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-14

consequences goes out at unseemly hours
10 gOrmandize, and gets killed.
There is a natural transition from in
sect eaters 10 eating insects. These are
all bad. They have either the nauseOus
4 bitter-sweeJ taste of ants or that indie
4 scrlOable combination Of detestable savOrs
( which grasshoppers possess in perfection.
Savages eat grObs-Australians especi
7 ally These people are however, til e
I lowest among mankind. All laryal forms
are hateful TO human beings with any
refinement. Some persons of whom bet
ter things might be expected pretend o
/ like fried locusts. Each one according to
his taste, Of course; but, in a general way,
the man who can swallow any kind of in
sect with satisfaction has something the
matter with his gustatOry apparatus.
IL is to be feared that among northern
nations there Is prejudice against mon
Keys as articles of food. The word preiu-
dice IS used because against the meat it.
self no objection can be made OF sacred
monkeys which are not eaten, nothing
need be said except that they are the
most impudent and, in an Indian "kirni-
ghar, the most intrusive animals as yet
uneXtermlnated. Foreign simians are
not so excellent as domestic species. A
cebus, together with others whose titles
are as long as their tails might be es-
teemed adelicacy by any gourmet. Cooked
- VIZ AHHe y ost 10 DLl u oBAL1 bllCIN dI =
OBJECTIONS against the dish on account of
It's cannibaiistic suggestions but as a
grill or fricassee it is delicious, and no
! other meat makes such hash.
Amid that vast area of overwhelming
vegetation which dwarfs human en-
deayor, and will always make the great
valleys Of the Amazons a savage and I'M
/ travelled land, Master Jocko disports
himself and grows fat on plums, plan
! tains bananas, nuts and many other nice
things. Occasionally he may diversity
| his diet with birds eggs, or even a
hedging; but as for larvae or worms,
they are seldom touched, whereas
woodcock gorges a mass equal to
his own weight every day, and
| is one of the best of game birds.
Perhaps the views of American
| monkeys are more perverted than
! those of Asiatic and African species by
the habit of looking at things upside down
! while hanging by their tails, which the
! latter cannot do. At all events they ap-
| pear to receive strangers with more con-
tumely than is customary. abroad, and
their morals as well as their manners are
at low ebb. They are not TO be shot
| without much experience, and even tiger
| cats have to bestir themselves to catch
| them. An Indian with a blow-gun whose
tiny shaft is tipped with curare is the
most dangerous enemy these abandoned
| little wretches have, and, as all the forest
! tribes are very fond Of them, great num-
| bers perish every year.
! Imagine this scene which is taken from
real life. A young cebus that has just
robbed its parents, or been guilty of some
| other villainy, sits out at the extreme end
| of limb, where nothing can get at him
! There the small malefactor swings safely
In the wind, rejoicing in the discussions of
| peccaries, triumphing over some bird that
has been caught by a hawk, and express
ing contempt for animated nature
IN his own way The creature sees
| most of what is going on around
| but not all. An Indian out after
| something to eat has heard him chatter
| ing and stalked the sound with infinite
! skill and precaution. from trunk to
| trunk of great trees, behind dense screens
| of lianas through slumps of tall rank
| grass, until within shooting distance.
| Then lean tube that looks like any other
] piece Of cane goes slowly up, there is a
| faint puff, the arrow flies, and with all
| his muscles of voluntary motion paralyzed
| by its poison, Jocko, the wicked, falls
| He is forthwith taken away to be cooked
and it is a solemn fact that in this con-
| dition the creature is much better than
! he ever was in any other