From Monkey to Man, or, Society in the Tertiary Age A Story of the Missing Link, Showing the First Steps in Industry, Commerce, Government, Religion and the Arts; With an Account of the Great Expedition From Cocoanut Hill and the Wars in Alligator Swamp

As the cold continued and strengthened, and about all the animals had left the Cocoanut Hill region, the Ammi began to consider whether they also should not migrate. They had re...

The next day the Ammi were startled at the sight of a strange ape, which was at first taken for one of the Lali, and they thought that the rest would soon be upon them. He was s...

The morning after the quarrel and make-up between Koree and Sosee, these two lovers started out to rescue Orlee from the captivity just mentioned. They tried in vain to induce t...

Several times during the night strange sounds were heard. Once they were all aroused, thinking the Lali were upon them. At another time they thought a wild beast was prowling ne...

The smoke, the noise, the fire and the water having cleared away, the Ammi were now discussing the earthquake. They had forgot their war preparations in the presence of a greate...

Having repaired the damage of the earthquake and flood, the Ammi set out on their march to the country of the Lali, having, first, however, armed themselves with the light weapo...

There had up to this time been many sects in the religion of the Ammi. They all agreed simply in recognizing Shoozoo as its founder, and his fight with the Alligator as the grea...

Busy now were the preparations for dire war. Not that troops were to be armed, or supplies collected for a long campaign. No vessels were to be fitted out to cross the Swamp, or...

Among the Lali the religion of Shoozoo was preserved in greater purity. There had not been such a great departure from Shoozoo himself, as among the Ammi, where he was entirely...

Now the battle raged on all sides. Not one but many went forth from each army, and were engaged in groups fighting hand to hand, or throwing missiles. The sudden appearance of S...

The plan of attack on the beasts was two-fold. One method was to associate together and make a combined assault by two’s or more, according to the strength of their antagonists....

The war being resolved upon, preparations now went on, and consumed so much time that many again lost interest. They grew impatient, first at the preparations, and then at the e...

Meanwhile the Lali, to whom we will now return, had been passing through a crisis no less serious than that of their enemy. After failing to overtake the Ammi, whom they had pre...

Aurora now appeared in the east starting the sleepers from their dreams, and advanced so bright that the terrified Ammi thought the Fire-monster had seized the sky, and was spre...

The two lovers had no other adventure until they came the next afternoon to the farther side of the swamp, where the Lali were settled. There they were astonished at the multitu...

But the pursuit did not end with the escape of the fugitive. The momentum of the Apes was too great to let them stop, even when they wanted to. They accordingly rushed on before...

Sleep came not to the Ammi that night, but instead Pestilence settled down upon them. The water of the Swamp, stirred by the recent floods, and the strange fruits which they had...

After the savage beasts had been driven from the region of Cocoanut Hill, and the Apes had come down from the trees, and were habitually on the ground, they found themselves enc...

Such was the wrath of Oboo, great monkey from beyond the Swamp, which, kindled by defeated love, against all mortals, sent many souls of heroes to the Shades, and gave their bod...

“We can never at this rate,” said Koree, “construct boats enough to cross this water. We have already toiled many days and only one man has yet crossed and returned.”

“What looks to me worst,” said another, “is, that when I was sharpening my flint this morning, the Fire-monster suddenly appeared to me, starting up out of the flint and immedia...

Meanwhile the Lali who had been worsted in the war, and whose defeat even the gallant Oboo could not avert, determined on a change of tactics. Recognizing their inferiority as c...

About ninety years after the fight between the Monkeys and Snakes on Cocoanut Hill, which was five hundred thousand years before our era, and near the end of the Tertiary Age, S...

Sosee had come down from the tree in which she received the news of the rape of Orlee, described in Chapter I, and, though she had given orders to Koree to bring back the child,...

Him seeing, and not fearing, the great Tree-climber of the mountains ran to meet, he who had often pulled the tails of cats, and grinned at larger beasts. Stopping often, and th...

The Lali being defeated, the next question with the Ammi was what to do with them. Pounder proposed that they follow them up and kill them all. Oko seconded this, so far as to f...

In the course of the contest with the tigers, which lasted several years, many improvements were made in the art of warfare, which afterwards served the Apes in time of peace. A...

When Koree returned with his charge to the Ammi, these were engaged in one of their sports, which consisted in throwing cocoanuts, and the rush of all to get them, much as their...

On the fourth day of their march the Ammi came to a body of water, which threatened to turn them back and defeat their expedition. The great earthquake, in tilting the country,...

Oboo, hearing there was a fight for girls, now came forward to take part. He had till now sulked in the rear, because of Ilo’s good fortune in possessing Sosee. Defeated in love...

Sosee was led back to the settlement of the Lali, where she was the admiration of all the Apes. Her bright face, her beautiful form, and her shapely limbs fixed the attention of...

The next day Fire-tamer, who had been hunting in the Swamp, returned to the Ammi, with a piece of burning wood. Having seen a tree struck by lightning, which was nearly consumed...

As rosy-colored Morn advanced to greet the opening eyes of monkeys and men, and spread her beams over Cocoanut Hill, lifting at last the veil of mists which hung over Alligator...

The events related in the preceding chapter occurred, as we have said, about ninety years after the fight between the Monkeys and Snakes on Cocoanut Hill. As the time of the Amm...

The disappearance of Sosee without anybody knowing it was a new puzzle to the Ammi. Was she spirited away by some supernatural power? or did she simply drop out of line into the...

All now depended on whether Koree and Sosee with the child could reach the Swamp in time to conceal themselves before the Lali should arrive. For so dense was the under-growth i...

The first impulse of the Ammi, on recovering their safety and their senses, was to kill Fire-tamer who was thought responsible for the disaster. He was supposed to know the habi...

The fight with the snakes, which now began, was not remarkable except for the stories to which it gave rise. The reptiles were nearly all driven from the country before it was o...

After the Snakes had been driven from the region of Cocoanut Hill, and the land thus rid of both wild beasts and reptiles, the Apes, who had now undisputed possession, got to fi...

“There is something unfathomable in that girl,” said Pounder. “We undertook this war for her, and now, when we have obtained her, she wants to go back to the enemy. I fear she h...

We have said that the stories of the exploits of this war have been handed down in the religion of the Apes. This is due not so much to the achievements of the heroes as to the...

The recapture of Sosee was an easy matter, though she had diverted from her the attention of all before attempting her escape; and several, standing near, sprang after her when...