San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01

when she was quite tiny and nurtured
by them. and that is why she is so like
them.
But to go on. My father said that it
was our duty to keep Hendrika at any
cost The worst of it was that for three
days she would eat nothing, and |
thought that she would die. for all the
while she sat and walled. On the third
day. however, went to the bars of the
window place and held out cup of milk
and some fruit to her. She looked at it
for a long while, then crept up moan
ing, took the milk from my hand and
drank it greedily, and afterwards ate the
fruit. From that time forward she took
food readily enough, but only if l would
feed her. But | must tell YOU of the
dreadful end of Hendrix. From the
day that we captured Hendrika the
whole place began to swarm with ba-
bOons which were evidently employed in
watching the kraals. One day Hendrix
went out towards the hills alone to
gather some medicine. He did not come
back again, so next day search was
made. BY big rock which | can show
you they found his scattered and broken
bones the fragments of his assegai and
four dead balloons. They had set upon
him and torn him 10 pieces.
My father was very much frightened
at this, but still he would not let Hen
drka go, because he said that she was
human. and that it was our duty to re-
claim her. And so we did-to a certain
extent, at least. After the mdrder of
Hendrix the balloons vanished from the
neighborhood. and have only returned
quite recently. 50 at length we vcntured
to let IIcndrika out. By this time she
had grown very fond of me: still on the
first opportunity she ran away. But in
the evening she returned again. She
had been seeking the balloons. and could
not find them. Shortly afterwards she
began to speak, taught her-and from
that time she has loved me SO that she
will not leave me. think it would kill
her if | went away from her. She
watches me all day, and at night sleeps
on the floor of my hut. Once, too, she
saved my life when was swept down
the river in flood; but she is jealous, and
hates everybody else. Look how she is
glaring at YOU now because | am talking
to you!
| looked Hendrika was tramping
along with the child in her arms and
staring at me in a most sinister fashion
out of the corners of her eyes.
While | was rejecting on the baboon
wOman'S strange story, and thinking
that she was an exceedingly awkward
customer, the path took a sudden turn.
Look" said Stella, there is our
house. Is it not beautiful"
1t was beautiful indeed. Here on the
western side of the great peak bay had
been formed in the mountain, which
might have measured eight hundred or a
thousand yards across by three-quarters
of mile in depth. At the back of the
indentatiOn the sheer cliff rose to the
height of several hundred feet, and be-
hind it and above it the great Babyan
peak lowered up towards the heavens.
The space of ground, embraced thus in
the arms of the mountain, as it were,
was laid out, as though by the cun1
hand of man, in three terraces that -
one above the other. To the right and
left of the tOpmOSt terrace were chasmS
in the cliff. and from each chasm fell a
waterfall, from no great height, indeed,
but of considerable volume. These two
streams flowed away on either side of
the inClOsed space, one toward the north,
and the other the course of which we
had been following, round the base of the
mountain. At each terrace they made
cascade, so that the traveller approaching
had 4 view Of eight waterfalls at once.
Along the edge of the stream to our left
were placed Katfir kraals, built in order
ly groups with verandas, after the Ba-
sutu fashion, and very large part of the
entire space of land was under cultiva-
ton. All of this noted at once, as well
as the extraordinary richness and depth
of the soil, which for many ages past had
been washed down from the mountain
heights. Then following the line of an
excellent wagon road, on which we now
found ourselves, that wound up from
terrace to terrace, my eye lit upon the
browning wonder of the scene. For in
the center of the tOpmoSt platform or
terrace, which may have inclosed eight
or ten acres of ground, and almost sur
rounded by groves of orange trees,
cleaned buildings of which had never
seen the like. There were three groups
of them, one in the middle and one on
either side, and little to the rear; but,
as afterwards discovered, the plan of
all was the same In the center was an