which he called the Macaco-bravo, to the
howling monkey or _Macaco-barbado_. In Chili, he had seen a pouched
monkey move the compassion of the huntsman by showing its little one. He
had seen in California a hollow trunk of a tree fall to the ground, so
vast that a man on horseback could ride one hundred paces inside. In
Morocco, he had seen the Mozabites and the Bisskris fighting with
matraks and bars of iron--the Bisskris, because they had been called
_kelbs_, which means dogs; and the Mozabites, because they had been
treated as _khamsi_, which means people of the fifth sect. He had seen
in China the pirate Chanh-thong-quan-larh-Quoi cut to pieces for having
assassinated the Ap of a village. At Thu-dan-mot, he had seen a lion
carry off an old woman in the open market-place. He was present at the
arrival of the Great Serpent brought from Canton to Saigon to celebrate
in the pagoda of Cho-len the fete of Quan-nam, the goddess of
navigators. He had beheld the great Quan-Su among the Moi. At Rio de
Janeiro, he had seen the Brazilian ladies in the evening put little
balls of gauze into their hair, each containing a beautiful kind of
firefly; and the whole forming a head-dress of little twinkling lights.
He had combated in Paraguay with swarms of enormous ants and spiders,
big and downy as an infant's head, and compassing with their long legs
a third of a yard, and attacking men by pricking them with their
bristles, which enter the skin as sharp as arrows, and raise painful
blisters. On the river Arinos, a tributary of the Tocantins, in the
virgin forests to the north of Diamantina, he had determined the
existence of the famous bat-shaped people, the Murcilagos, or men who
are born with white hair and red eyes, who live in the shady solitudes
of the woods, sleep by day, awake by night, and fish and hunt in the
dark, seeing better then than by the light of the moon. He told how,
near Beyrout, once in an encampment of an expedition of which he formed
part, a rain gauge belonging to one of the party happened to be stolen
from a tent. A wizard, wearing two or three strips of leather only, and
looking like a man having nothing on but his braces, thereupon rang a
bell at the end of a horn so violently, that a hyena finally answered
the summons by bringing back the missing instrument. The hyena was, in
fact, the thief. These veritable histories bore a strong resemblance to
fictions; but they amused Deruchette.

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