Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Wood Engraving
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1877
- Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & Co.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image. 1 inch = 2,54 cm
- Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
Narrative:
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the way, however, many towns and small rivers attract notice, and one
is well repaid for delay by a thousand interesting and curious scenes.
Nothing is perhaps more amusing than to watch the freaks of the
monkeys, which abound in this region; and such a scene as the one
represented in the emgraving may any day be witnessed in places where
the crocodiles are numerous. These amphibiae frequent the low river
banks under trees haunted by troops of malicious monkeys, and the
latter delight to swing downward and tease the crocodile, extending and
withdrawing a little black hand within an inch of his mouth. The
monster snaps his huge jaws in vain, and the monkeys greet his failures
with derisive chatter; but sometimes they swing too low, and the
teasing hand is caught as in a trap. With the rapidity of lightning the
little animal is drawn under the water, and with shrieks and moans the
frolicsome group in the trees disperses, not, however, so dismayed but
that they will recommence their amusement whenever the occasion offers.
The French colony of Cochin-China is in possession of the delta of the
Makong, and great hopes were at one time entertained by the home
government that this river would prove to be a navigable stream all the
way from the Chinese frontier. In this hope a commission was dispatched
to examine the river, and it was explored nearly to the frontiers, at a
great sacrifice of brave and valuable life, only to satisfy themselves
that it is "an impassable stream," broken at least three times by
furious cataracts, and having a current against which nothing could be
navigated.
Notes:
- Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
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