he is not going to be treated in the same way!"

So like was one part of the forest to another, that I had no idea we
were near our huts when we came in sight of them True heard us
approaching and came bounding forth to meet us, leaping up first to lick
my hands and then sniffing up at poor little Nimble, who trembled at
seeing him, and after vainly endeavouring to escape, clung tightly to
Arthur for protection. "Do call off True; there's a good fellow!"
exclaimed Arthur. "He will frighten poor little Nimble to death; but
when they are better acquainted they will become very good friends, I
dare say." I called True to me, and presently Ellen and Maria came
running out of the hut towards us. Ellen was greatly pleased with
Nimble, and thanked Arthur very much for having brought him. We carried
Nimble into the hut, and Domingos found a leathern strap to fasten round
his waist, by which he was secured to one of the beams in the roof.
Here he could run from side to side of the hut, out of the reach of
True. He kept looking down on us somewhat scared at first at his novel
position, but in a short time took some nuts and fruit readily from
Arthur's hand, and after examining and cautiously tasting them, to
ascertain that they suited his palate, ate a hearty meal.

Ellen told us that she and Maria had been greatly alarmed during our
absence by the appearance of a large creature--from their account a puma
or a jaguar--which had come close to the hut. True had behaved nobly in
standing on the defensive, while they had screamed and waved sticks to
try to frighten it off. For some time, however, they were afraid that
it would attack them, but at last it turned tail and retreated into the
forest.

Domingos and our Indian friends lost no time in preparing the game which
we had killed. Arthur and I watched them, when Domingos, without at all
recognising the likeness which Arthur and I had discovered in the
_macaco barrigudo_ to himself, began without ceremony to skin it, and in
a short time had it spitted and roasting before the fire. We had formed
a rough table, and the first article of food which Domingos placed on it
was a portion of the big monkey on a plantain leaf.

"Ah!" he said, "I have reserved this for you; for the meat is superior
to that of either the other monkeys or the birds. Just try it, and you
will agree with me."

Had he not talked about the monkey, probably no one would have objected
to the meat, whi