“That’s just what they did, Mappo,” said Tum Tum, and the sailor, looking at the two animals, did not know they were telling secrets to each other.

“I’ll just leave ’em together a while,” said the sailor.  “I don’t believe the monkey will run away, and, as he’s getting homesick, it may make him feel better to be with the elephant a while.”

Mappo was indeed getting homesick for the jungle, and for his folks, but when he saw Tum Tum, he felt much better.

“How did they catch you?” asked the monkey, as the sailor went up on deck, while Mappo and the elephant stayed down in the lower part of the ship, where it was nice and warm, talking to one another.

“Oh, the hunters made a big, strong fence in the jungle,” said Tum Tum.  “They left one opening in it, and then they began to drive us elephants along toward it.  We did not know what was happening until it was too late, and at last we were caught fast in a sort of big trap, and could not get out.”

“I should think you were so strong that you could easily have gotten out,” Mappo said.

“Well, we did try—­we wild elephants,” spoke Tum Tum.  “We rushed at the bamboo fence, and tried to break it down with our big heads.  But tame elephants, who had helped to drive us into the trap, came up, and struck us with their trunks, and stuck us with their tusks, and told us to be good, and not to break the fence, and that we would be kindly treated.  So we behaved, and, after a while, we found ourselves on this ship.”

“Do you like it here?” asked Mappo.

“Well, it isn’t so bad,” said Tum Tum.  “I get all I want to eat, and I don’t have to hunt for it.  I am to go in a circus and menagerie, I hear.  I don’t quite know what that is, do you?”

“Not exactly,” answered Mappo, scratching his nose.

“Well, maybe we’ll be in it together,” went on Tum Tum.  “But how did you happen to get caught, and brought away from the jungle, little monkey?”

Then Mappo told of being caught in the net when he picked up the pieces of cocoanut.

“Were any other animals caught with you?” asked Tum Tum.

“Oh, yes, the hunters had other animals—­some monkeys, and a big tiger in a cage.  He was named Sharp-Tooth, the tiger was.”

“Hush!” whispered Tum Tum through his trunk, and looking around carefully, he went on:  “Don’t let him know I’m here!”

“Let who know?” asked Mappo.

“Sharp-Tooth, the tiger.  Don’t tell him I’m here,” Tum Tum said.

“Why not?” the little monkey wanted to know.

“Well, because he and I aren’t friends,” said Tum Tum.  “You know in the jungle, hunters sometimes ride on the backs of myself, and my elephant friends, to hunt tigers.  That’s why the tigers don’t like us.  So don’t mention to Sharp-Tooth that I’m on board this ship.”

“I won’t, of course,” spoke Mappo in his funny, monkey talk.  “But it wouldn’t matter, anyhow, as he’s in a cage.”