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Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival leaders of the pack, potential fathers of future generations. The bodies were beyond postmortem; there was no way of proving that it was an Axis poison plot...
...Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned the garrison of a Spanish attack, the apes of Gibraltar have been tenderly cherished. In 1872 a subaltern who shot two of them for stealing his wardrobe was court-martialed, required to apologize publicly. Nowadays the apes are free to roam the Rock's caves and roads. The military administration even includes an official charged with keeping the apes alive, healthy and procreative. He is known as "0. C. Apes...
...Aleutians they swung from ropes to chisel footholes in the solid rock of steep cliffs, and working on the mountain's precipitous wall in a driving rain constructed a track for a traveling carriage...
...long swells of the South Atlantic break angrily against lonely Tristan da Cunha. In the volcanic rock of this island group, halfway between Cape Town and Montevideo, they have scoured deep, dark caverns...
First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...