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were many lofty trees, which no one could
climb. In that valley were also many apes,
which, when they saw us, fled from us, and
ascended those trees. Then the men began to
pelt the apes with the stones that they had
with them in the bags; upon which the apes
began to pluck off the fruits of those trees,
and to throw them at the men; and I looked
at the fruits which the apes threw down, and,
lo, they were cocoa-nuts. Therefore when I
beheld the party do thus, I chose a great tree,
upon which were many apes, and, advancing
to it, proceeded to pelt those apes with stones;
and they broke off nuts from the tree and
threw them at me. So I collected them as the
rest of the party did, and the stones were not
exhausted from my bag until I had collected a
ereat quantity. And when the party had ended
this work, they gathered together all that was
with them, and each of them carried off as many
of the nuts as he could. We then returned to
the city during the remainder of the day, and
I went to the man, my companion, who had
associated me with the party, and gave him
all that I had collected, thanking him for his
kindness. But he said to me, “Take these
and sell them, and make use of the price.”