Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-01

kb0ot ana ran fOg n00o - t0De - ~
could manage. When ws wers near the
waterfall, and withia about 90 yards Of
the garden wall. We heasd voice be-
hind us, and there, lcaping from rock b
rock, and running over the grass, was
the whole family Of balloons headed BY
the old man.
"'Run, miss, runr gasped Hendrix,
and / did like the wind, leaving him fag
behind I dashed into the garden, whers
some Kafars were working, crying, The
babyansi the babyansT Luckily the men
had their sticks and spears BY than and
ran out Just In time to savs Hendrix,
who was almost overtaken. Tbe baboous
made good fight for u, however, and Il
was not till the old man was killed with
IN assegai that they ran away.
"Wel, there II little hut In the kraal
q the stead where my father sometimes
shuts up natives who have misbehaved.
Il = very strong, and has Q barred win
dow. To this hut Hendrix carried the
sack, and, having united the mouth, put
II down on the floor, and ran from the
place, shutting the door behind him. In
another moment the poor little thing
was out and dashing round the stone hut
~ though Il were mad. Itsprung as the
bars Of the window, chung there, and
beat its head against them till the blood
came. Then Il fell TO the floor, and sat
there crying like child. and rocking It.
self backwards and forwards. Il was 90
cad 10 see II that began to cry too.
"Just then my father came in and
asked what all the fuss was about. I
told him that we had caught q young
white baboon, and he was angry, and
said that II must be let 60. But when he
looked at IL through the bars Of the win
dow he nearly fell down with astonish.
ment.
"'Whyr he said, this is not baboon,
It Is white child that the balloons have
stolen and brought upr
"Now, Mr.. Allan, whether my father
Is right or wrong, you can Judge for
yourself. You sec Hendrika-we named
her that after Hendrix, who caught her
she fs woman, not a 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 Is
very savage, and when she is angry or
jealous she seems to 60 mad, though she
Is as clever as anybody. Think that she
must have been stolen by the baboons
when she was quite tiny and nurtured
by them, and that is why she is SO like
them.
"But to go on. by father said that Il
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 q cup Of milk
and some fruit to her. She looked at it
for long while, then crept up moan
Ing, took the milk from my hand and
drank 1t greedily, and afterwards ate the
fruit. From that time forward she took
food readily enough, but only II would
feed her. But I 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 70
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 baboons. They had set upon
him and torn him to pieces.
my father was very much frightened
at this, but still he would not let Hen
drika 60, because he said that she was
human, and that it was our duty to 70
claim her. And 80 We did-to a certain
extent, at least. After the murder of
Hendrix the baboons vanished from the
neighborhood. and have only returned
quite recently, SO at length we ventured
to let Hendrika 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 il
glaring at you now because am talking
to you'll"
| looked. Hendrika was trampins
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 baboor
woman's strange story, and thinking
that she was an exceedingly awkward
customer, the path took sudden turn.
'Lookl" said Stella, "there is oul
house. Is it not beautiful"
1t was beautiful indeed. Here on tho
western side of the great peak bay hal
been formed in the mountain, which
might have measured eight hundred or
thousand yards across by three-quarter,
of mile in depth. At the back Of thu
indentation the sheer cliff rose to the
height of several hundred feet, and be
hind it and above it the great Babyar
peak lowered up towards the heavens.
The space of ground, embraced thus In
the arms of tho mountain, as it were
was laid out, as though by the cunning
hand OF man, in three terraces that rost
one above the other, To the right ant
left OF the topmost terrace were chasms
in the cliff, and from each chasm fell ;
waterfall, from no great height, indeed
but Of considerable volume. These two
streams flowed away on either side o.
the inclosed space, one toward the north
and the other. the course of which W,
had been following, round the base of tn,
mountain. At each terrace they made ;
cascade, SO that the traveller approaching
had view of eight waterfalls at once
Along the edge of the stream to our lef