Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-12

'.TelI me. Nr. Allan" she said, sshov
it was that came TO find you dying i,
the desert?'
So began and told her all Il tool
an hour or more TO do SO, and she lis
tened inteatsy, row and again asking {
question.
1T is all very wonderful she sid
/ when I had done, ''ve-v wonderful, In
deed Do you know I went out thi
morning with Kendrika and the dogs To-
8 ride, meaning 10 get back home by
midday, for my father Is III. and do no
Ike TO leave him for long. Bat just as
was going TO turn, when we were about
| where We axe now-yes. this WAS the
very bush-an oriSe GOT NJ, and the dog:
chased il. ! followed them for the gal
! Iop, and when we came to the river, in
/ stead Of turning TO the LETT as bucks gen
orally do. the oribe swan the stream and
/ took to the bad lands beyond / followed
| it, and within 3 hundred yards of TIE
( big tree the dogs killed L. Hendrila
wanted me 20 turn back a. once, but
/ said that we would rest under the shade
/ of the tree, for knew that there was a
/ spring of water near. Well. we went; and
there saw you al lying Ike dead; but
Hendriks. who IS very clever IN some
ways. said no-and you know the rest.
Yes, it IS very wonderful"
1T is, indeed" said ''Now tel me,
Miss Stella, who is Hendrika:'
She looked round before answering TO
see that the woman was not near.
''Hers IS a strange story, MT. Allan. I
viii tell you You must know that all
these mountains and the country beyond
are fIli, OF balloons When l was a girl
OF abesIs 10 I used to wander about a
good deal alone in the hills and valleys,
and watch the babcons as they PLAYED
among the rocks. There was ore fami-
II Of balloons that watched especially
they used TO live in klaaf about mile
from the house. The old man baboon
was very large, and one of the females
had gray face. But the reason why /
watched them so much was because /
saw that they had with them 4 creature
that looked ike q girl, for her skin was
quite white, and, what was mere, that
she WAS protected from the weather
when it happened to be cold By fur
belt of some sort. which she tied round
her throat. The old balloons seemed -
be especially fond Of her. and would sit
with their arms round her neck.
For nearly a whole summer l watched
this particular white-skinDed baboCn,
till at last ny curiosity quite overmas-
tered me. I noticed that, though she
climbed about the cliffs with the other
monkeys, az a certain hour little before
shutdown they used to put her, with one
or two other much smaller ones, into a
little cave, while the family went eff
somewhere TO get food-to the neaIe
fields, l suppose. Then ! got an idea
that / would catch this white baboon
and bring it home. But of course L
could not do this by myself, so took a
Hottentot-a very clever man when he
was not drunk-who lived on the stead,
into my confidence. he was called Hem
Dirk, and was very fond Of me; but fer
a long while he would not listen 10 my
plan, because he said that the babyans
would kill Us. At last I brioed him with
q knife that had four blades, and one
afternoon we started, Hendrix carry
ing stout sack made Of hide, with a
rope running through it so that the
mouth could be drawn tight
''We!l, we got TO the place, and, hid
ing ourselves carefully in the trees at tho
foot Of the kloof, watched the balloons
playing about and granting TO each other.
till at length. according to custom, they
took the white one and three other little
babies and pus them in the cave. Then
the old man came out, looked carefully
round, called 10 his family, and went of
with them over the brow Of the ktoof.
Now very slowly and cautiously We creep.
up over the rocks tall we came TO the
mouth of the cave and looked IN. All
the four little baboons were fast asleep.
with their backs toward US. and their
arms around each others necks, the
white one being III the middle. Nothing
could have been better for our plans
Hendrix, who by this time had quite en-
tered into the spirit Of the thing, crept
into the cave Ike a snake, and suddenly
dropped the mouth Of the hide bag over
the head of the white baboon. The poor
little thing woke Up and gave violent
jump. which caused it % vanish RICH.
into the bag. Then Hendrix pulled tho
string tight. and together We knotted II
SO that it was impossible for our captive
TO escape. Meanwhile the other baby
balloons had rushed from the cave
screaming, and when we got outside
they were nowhere TO be seen.
"'Come on. miss 1aid Hendrix; the
babyan VIII soon b. back he had
shoaIdered The sack, inside which the
white habOon was kicking violsutly, and
screaming Ike q child r vas dreadful
10 hear its shrieks-
1--WE scrambled down the SIDES Of the
kioof and ran for home As fast as ~e
could manage. When We were near the
waterfall, aud within about 800 yards q
the garden wall. We heard 3 voice be-
hind Us, and there, leaping from rock %
rock. and running over the grass. was
the whole family of baboons beaded By
the old man.
Run. mis-. run" g2sped Hend-ik,
and did like the wind. beavi7g him FAR
behind dashed into the garden, whsre
some Kaftl-s were working, crying. The
babyaos, the babyaasr Luckily the nen
had their s-1cks sud SPEARS By them ard
ran out Just in tine 10 save Hendrix,
who was almost 0vsTtake2- TIE baboOns
made a good fgis. for L, however. ard IL
was DOT til me cd man Tzs killed with
an assegai that they ran away.
Wei, there Is lttls hUT IN the krasl
At the stead where nv father c-netines
stzIts vp ratives who have rzisoehavsd-