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But Jocko had cause to repent putting on the boots; for they had been lined with pitch, and set there by a cunning planter, who was in the habit of catching monkeys for sale. And while poor Jocko was trying to get out of them as fast as he could, he was seized and bound by the stranger, and not set at liberty till he was on board a vessel on the point of sailing for Europe.

Now though Jocko had wished to see the world, he would rather have seen it after his own fashion, and did not much relish the great bare masts instead of the beautiful trees of his native forest; but what was worse still, he had to take his meals with a couple of Angola cats, and as they always wanted to have the lion’s share, and Jocko stood up for his rights, there was a great deal of scratching and clawing, and the monkey had generally the worst of it between the two.