Officers of the Elder Dempster iner Appam, which has arrived Plymouth from the West of Africa, told an extraordinary story of a monkey hunt on the outward voyage. Before leaving Liverpool, the Appam tool on board 40 young] monkeys for connection with yellow fe They were in three boxes leaped it was decid-them all to the ship's live-stock room. This was don but by some means the whole tribe exeaped from this room and scott ship. Some swarme others sought refuge in the wireless room, some found their way to the bridge. Officers and passengers, of whom there were about 100 on board, all joined in the: hunt, but a whole wool passed before'all the monkeys were rounded up. Then, to the amazement of everybody, when the monkeys were counted it was found that there wore 4d instend of 40. It is nssimed that a mistake was made in the number when the monkeys were shipped.
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