The Daily Astorian

How Monkeys are Captured.

The ape family resembles man. Their vices are human. They love liquor and fall. In Darfour and Senar the natives make a fermented beer, of which the monkeys are passionately fond. Aware of this the natives go to the parts of the forest frequented by the monkeys, and set on the ground calabashes full of the enticing liquor. As soon as the monkey sees and tastes it, he utters loud cries of joy that soon attracts his comrades. Then an orgie begins, and in a short time they will show all degrees of intoxication. Then the negroes appear. The few who came too late to get fuddled escape. The drinkers are too far gone to distrust them, but apparently take them for larger species of their own genus. The negroes take some up and these begin to weep and cover them with kisses. When a negro takes one by the hand to lead him off, the nearest monkey will cling to the one who thus finds a support and endeavor to go on also. Another will grasp at him, and so on, until the negro leads a staggering line of ten or a dozen monkeys. When finally brought to the village they are securely caged up and gradually sobered down; but for two or three days a gradually diminishing supply of liquor is given them, so as to reconcile them by degrees to their state of captivity.