Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-23
BAB00NS CAPTRuE
SAILOR and HOLD
HIM AS PRISONER
Giant Monkeys of Jungle Feed
Their Victim After Drag
ging Him Five Miles.

New York-Special: Held in captivity
by an army of giant balloons for two
days until he had given up all hope
OF ever seeing his home or ship again
was the gruesome experience Of
aboard the liner Kasenga, in port from
Calcutta and Mombassa.
h voice OF Chief Officer Wallace
Wooster never sounded so cheerful to
Griggs as 1t did when. at the head Of a
picket of native police and 20 Malay
sailors, he attacked the baboons in the
Mombassa jungle and drove them away.
Griggs was lying exhausted and almost
dead from fright at the foot OF q giant
cactus when rescued.
Il shudder at the thought of it," said
the MILDLY as he told his story while
Chief Officer Wooster and Midshipman
Clarence Horne swoked their pipes.
Horne and l thought we would take a
walk through the jungle by moonlight,
so we left the ship at 8 o'clock and
headed for the forest.
Surrounded by Faces.
w sang and raised a rare din when
suddenly we heard the combined chat
tering of hundreds of monkeys. BY
Jove! 1t was uncanny. We stopped
and saw all those horrible faces sur
rounding us. Then one OF them put it's
arms round my neck. l shrieked and
Horne ran away A dozen or more
balloons pressed round me and dragged
inc away through the jungle. They did
not hurt me except when they scratched
me in tearing my uniform. After
a five-mile march they halted in a
banana grove and held a council of
q
Il fell down cold with terror. 1t was
awful. To see those fearful faces in
the moonlight and to listen to their in
fprnH1 Chaffarinp almost 6rnya mo mad
l must have tainted for it was daylight
when l saw them again. They squatted
ound me and offered me bananas and
pincapples 10 eat. They seemed to have
sentinels some yards away from where
l was lying.
Treated Him Like a Child.
They did not leave me all day. Per-
theirs, for one big fellow treated me
as though l was his child. 1 found n
can of pressed meat which they hadn't
been able to open, but / wasn't hungry
or thirsty. 1 was scared stiff. How
the day and following night passed I
before the chief and the native police
found me-"
Chief Officer Wooster took UP the
story at this point and explained he
thought Horne was romancing when he
came back to the ship and said that
= 70 AN SSSAA W. "
But he WAS sc serious that all hands
We're called ON deck, a posse of natives
Impressed and off we started to trail
the monkeys.
Found on Third Night.
ut was the third night after Griggs
lest the ship that our guides brought
It's to the monkey camp. At their sug-
gestion we had brought a pile of ships
tickets with us. and after lighting q
fire to windwsrd of the camp we threw
the rockets IN the blaze, piled on a
heap of rep pepper and started to yell.
A The rockets shot up one by one
the balloons shlieked in chorus, sighted
the fire, sneezed .at the pepper and tore
hway through the Jungle like SO many
i,:'dlnen. Then we advanced and found
poor Griggs, almost naked and shiver-
ing with fear. A dose Of Scotch put
him on his pins and away we started
for the old Kasenga, and I'll bet the
lad never loved the old ship as much
before, did you Griggs?"
NO, / didn't" answered the MILDLY.
II was mighty thankful to see you all
again, and no more jungle walks by
moonlight for me-"