Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1905 — CHAPTER IX. [ARTICLE]

CHAPTER IX.

HE sailor went after those monI I keys in a mood of relentless J severity. Thus far the regular denizens of Rainbow island bad dwelt together in peace and mutual good will, but each diminutive wou-wou must be taught not to pull any strings he found tied promiscuously to trees or stakes. As a preliminary essay Jenks resolved to try force combined with artifice. Falling complete success, he would endeavor to kill every monkey in the place, though he had in full measure the inherent dislike of Anglo-India to the | slaying of the tree people. This, then, is what be did: After I filling a biscuit tin with good sized ■ pebbles be donned a Dyak but, blouse' and licit, rubbed earth over his face i and hands and proceeded to pelt the 1 wou-wous mercilessly. For more than an hour he made their lives miserable until at the mere sight of him they fled, shrieking and gurgling like a thousand water bottles. Finally he constructed several Dyak scarecrows and erected one to guard each of his alarm guns. The device was thoroughly effective. Thenceforth, when some adventurous monkey, swinging with hands or tall among the treetops in the morning search for appetizing nut or luscious plantain, saw one of those fearsome bogles, lie raised such a hubbub that all his companions scampered hastily from the confines of the wood to the Inner fastnesses. During each of the two daily examinations of the horizon, which he never omitted, Jenks minutely scrutinized I. ll © sea Jietween Rainbow island and

the distant group. Tt~was a needless precaution. The Dyaks would come at night. With a favorable wthd they need not set sail until dusk, and their fleet sampans would easily cover tbe intervening forty miles in five hours. w He could not be positive that they were actual inhabitants of the islands to the south. The China sea swarms with wandering pirates, and the tribe whose animosity he had earned might be equally noxious to some peaceable fishing community on the coast. Again and again he debated the advisability of constructing a seaworthy raft and endeavoring to make tbe passage. But this would be risking all on a frightful uncertainty, and tbe accidental discovery of the eagle’s nest had given him new hope. Here he could make a determined and prolonged stand, and in the end help must come. So he dismissed the navigation project and devoted himself wholly to the perfecting of the natural fortress in the rock. [TO BB CONTINUED.)