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

she Is woman. cot . monkey, and
yet she has many of the ways of mon
keys, and looks like one, too. You saw
how she can climb, for instance, and
you hear how she talks Also, she ia
very savage. and when she is angry or
jealous she seems TO go mad. though she
Is as clever as anybody. think that she
nust have been stolen BY the habssons
when she was quite tiny and nurtured
oy them, and that is why she Is 50 ike
them
But to so on Ny father said that II
was or duty 20 keep Hendrika Ct anv
cost. The worst o. /. was that for three
days she would eat nothing, and I
thought that she would die. for all the
while she sal. and walled. On the third
day. however. went 70 the bars Of the
window place and held cut q cup Of milk
and soEns fruir 10 her She looked as it
for long wkile, then crept I'D moan
ing, took the milk from nv hand and,
drank i g-eedilr, and afterwards a:e the
fruit. From that tune forward she took
food readily su@aSh. but only Il would
ssed her Bszt I must tell you Of the
dreadful end OF Hendrix. Prom the
| day that we captured EendrIsa the
whole place began 20 SWARM with he-
boons which were evidently employed in
/ watching the kTaalS One day Hendrix
went out towards the hills alone 70
gather some medicine. He did not come
/ hack again, 50 rext dny search was
made, BY big rock which / can show
/ you they found his scattered and broken
/ bones, the fragments Of his asseSai and
! four dead ba5oons They had set upon
him and torn him to pieces.
( MY father was very much frightened
+ at this. but stili he would not lee Hen
drika 20, bees use he said that she Was
F human. and that Is was our duty TO re-
claim her. And so we did-so a certain
/ extent. nc least. After the murder of
I Hendrix the balloons vanished from the
neichborhood. and have only returned
+ quite recently. so at length we ventured
70 let Hendrika out. By this time she
had grown very fond OF me; stil on the
first opportunity she ran away. But in
the evening she returned again. She
had been seeking the baDcons, and could
not find them. Shortly afterwards she
began 70 speak, taught her-ana from
thst time she has loved me so that she
viii not leave me. ! think it would kin
her if | went away from her. She
watches me ali day, and st night sleeps
on the floor OF my hut. Once, too, she
saved my life when was swept down
the river in food; but she is jealous, and
hates every body else. Look how she IL
glaring a. you row because am talking
TO your
L looked. Hendrika was tramping
along with the child in her arms and
staring st me in a most sinister fashion
out Of the corners of her ewes.
While vas rejecting on tho bahoon
vomans strange story, and thinking
that she was an exceedingly awkward
customer. the path took sudden turn.
Look said Stella, "there Ia our
house Is IL not beauaful?'
IL was beautiful indeed. Here on the
western side OF the great peak q bay had
been formed in the mountain. which
might have measured eight hundred ora
Thousand yards across By thres-quarterz
OF mite in depth. At the back OF the
indentasion the sheer cliff rose TO the
height CT several hundred feet, and be-
hind It and above il the great Bsbyan
peak lowered up towards the heavens.
The euace Of ground. embraced thus IN
the arms Of the mountain, "a IL were,
was laid oy!t, a. though by the cunning
hand Of man. Ia three terraces thai rose
one above the other. To the right and
left Of the topnost terrace were CHAINS
Ia The ClIf. and from each chaszn fell a
waterfall, from 20 great height, indeed.
but OF considerable volume. These two
streams flowed away On either side Of
the inciosed space, one toward the north.
and the other. the courze of which we
had been following. round the base Of ths
mountain At each terrace they made q
cascade, 30 that the traveller approaching
had a view * eight waterfalls a. once.
Along tho edge Of the stream 70 our iefs
were placed kafilr krassls, built Ia order
II groups with verandss. after the Ba-
sutu fashion. and a very large part Of tho
entire space 81 land WA under critfvs-
ton. Al CT this note~i az once. rs well
a. the extraordinary richness and dspth
of the soil, which for many ages past bad
been washed down from the mountain
heizhts. Then following the line % an
excellent wagon road. ca which We now
found ourselves. that wound NJ frosa
terrace 70 terrace. my eye ~ upon thu
croxning wonder OF TIE seine For IN
the center Of the toprnost platform or
terrace, which NAV have iaclosed ei~hs
Or ten acres If g-rouad. and alfnos. sur
rounded BY groves Of grange trees,
gieaned baiidiugs Ct which had never
seen the Ike. There were three groups
% them. one IN the middle aud one ou
ei.har side. and a little % the rear; buI
as / afterwards Discovered, toe plan q
al was tie same. In the cs1ter was an
edidcs constructesi Ike an ordinary Zuki
hut-;hat Is 20 say, IA the shaps of a
beshiTe. only Il wa Eve times the szs
q any hu: ] ever saw, ard huh es
blocks of besSn white marble, fitted To-
getheT with s-usoraInary know l-igs q
the principles ard properties Of arch
building. and with 50 much accurscT
ard fnL2h that h was oftss dsf5cvss1 N
A1d the frouss Of The rnzsxrTs kiockz
From this oeatsr hut ran Ihree oOvvrxzI
passages, les-fEsZ n other buIls5Inss -
al exactly zsEa3i4r character. o1ly small
er, aud each whole bsock wzs inojo~eed
by marble van about f0sr fest ~
besgk-
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