IN capturing monkeys, it is said that their curiosity is the thing that makes them an easy prey. Nearly all the monkeys that we see in this country come from Gorgona, a little village situated a short distance from the Panama Railroad. The inhabitants of this district are mostly native negroes, for few white men could bear the climate. The whole region is marshy and covered with tropical vegetation. At night there arises a thick vapor, laden with fever, which hangs over the woods like a cloud. This region of the woods is the paradise of the monkeys. They travel in troops, led by an older monkey. When the people receive information that the “traveling monkey troops” are near the village, they go to the woods in crowds to chase them. Their plan is very simple. They cut a hole in a coconut large enough for a monkey’s paw to enter. The nut is then hollowed out and a piece of sugar is placed in it. A piece of string is then fastened to it, and it is placed in the road of the approaching monkeys. It is well known that monkeys are very inquisitive. When they see the coconut in the grass, they hurry to examine it. It does not take them long to find out that the inner part contains a piece of sugar. One of the boldest and greediest sticks a paw into the nut to get the sugar, and grasps it as firmly as he can. But his fist is so large that he can not draw it out of the hole again with the sugar, to which he holds fast, cost what it may. The natives now pull the string until nut and monkey arrive in the vicinity of their ambuscade. In the meantime, the other monkeys wonder what is the matter with their comrade. They hurry to see where he is being pulled to with his paw in the coconut. They crowd around him, chattering and gesticulating, and the natives, who have a large net ready, cast it over them, and before they know it all are prisoners. They are sold to the employees of the Panama Railroad, and reach the North American markets through commercial dealers.—Anon.