10 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 17

A GEM FROM THE GOLD COAST.

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—The following, from the last able Report of the Com- missioner of the Eastern Province of the Gold Coast, is too good to be lost :—

"The telegraph line at Attitete has been interrupted from time to time by the gymnastic exercises of the large monkeys who haunt the neighbourhood?'

Attitete is at the mouth of the Volta River.—I am, Sir, &c.,

G.