The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19

dark eyes flashed, and she pointed with
| her hand at female who stood before
her, dressed in nondescript kind of
clothes, such as might be worn by either
a man or a woman. The woman, was
young, of white blood, very short, with
bowed legs ard enormous shoulders. In
face she was not bad looking, but the
brow receded, the chin and ears were
pronainent-in short, she reminded me
of nothing so much as a very handsons
monkey. She might have been the miss
ing link.
The lady was pointing at her with her
hand. '+How dare you!" she said '|Are
you going to disobey me again? Have
you forgotten what told you, Babyan
(baboon):'
''Ah! alJI' grunted the woman, who
seemed literally to curl and shrivel up
beneath her anger. Don't be angry
with me, Miss Stella, because I can't
bear it. 1 only said it because it was
true. will fetch the brandy"
Then, dream or no dream, determined
20 speak.
''Not brandy" gasped in English as
well as my swollen tongue would allow:
''give me water"
:.Ah, he livesr' cried the beautiful
girl, land he talks English. See, sir,
here is water in your own bottle; you
were quite close to spring on the other
side of the tree"
l struggled to a sitting position, lifted
the bottle to my lips. and drained it. OH
that drinl, of cool, pure water! neverhad
l tasted anything SO delicious. At the
first gulp [ felt life flow back into me.
But wisely enough she would not let ne
have much. mo more! no more." she
said. and dragged the bottle from me al
most by force.
1.-THE child" 1 said-''is the child
dead:''
81 do not know yet" she answered
''We have only just found you, and
tried to revive you first"
turned and crept to where Tota lay
By the side of indaba-zimbi. 1t was i'm
possible to say if they were dead or
swooning. The lady sprinkled Totals
face with the water, which watched
greedily, for my thirst was still awful,
while the woman Hendrika did the same
office for Indaba-zimbi. Presently, to my
vast delight, Tota opened her eyes and
tried to cry, but could not, poor little
thing, because her tongue and lips were
so swollen. But the lady got some water
, into her mouth, and, as in my case. the
effect was magical. We allowed her to
drink about quarter of a pint, and no
more, though she cried bitterly for it.
Just then old Indaba-zimbi came to with
a groan. He opened his eyes, glanced
round and took in the situation.
''What did 1 tell you, Macumazahn?'
and he seized the bottle and took a long
pull at it.
? Meanwhile l sat with my back against
f the trunk of the great tree and tried to
realize the situation. Looking to my
, left 1 saw two good horseshoe bare
backed and one with a lady's rude
saddle on it. By the side of the horses
E were two dogs, of stout greyhound
breed, that sat watching us, and near
the dogs lay dead Airlie buck, which
, they had evidently been coursing.
"Hendrika," said the lady presently,
/ ''they must not eat meat just yet. Go
and look up the tree and see if there is
any ripe fruit ON it,"
The woman ran swiftly into the plain
, and obeyed. Presently she returned.
! 81 see some ripe fruit" she said, ''but is
is high, quite at the top"
"Fetch it," said the lady.
o easier said than DONE" thought to
myself; but 1 was mucl, mistaken. Sud-
9 denly the woman bounded at least three
! feet into the air and caught one of the
. spreading boughs in her large, flat hands
: "a swing that would have filled an aero
: bat with envy-and she was ON it.
i ''Now there is an end" thought, for
, the next bough was beyond her reach.
! But again l was mistaken. She stood up
k on the bough, gripping it with her bare
feet, and once more sprang at the one
s above, caught it and swung herself into
O it.
suppose that the lady saw my look Of
astopishment. ''Do not wonder, SIR"
she said; 'sHendrika is not like otherpeo-
d pie. She will not fall"
q / made no answer, but watched the
r progress of this extraordinary person
r with the most breathless interest On she
r went, swinging herself from bough to
e bough, and running along them like a
r monkey. At last she got to the top and
began to swarm along thin branch
V towards the ripe fruit When she was
k near enough she shook the branch vio-
d lently. There was crack-a crash-it
broke. 1 shut my eyes, expecting to see
It her crushed ON the ground before me.
IS Don't be afraid" said the lady again
Is laughing gently. "Look, she is quite
e safe"
e I looked, and so she was. She had
< caught bough as she fell, chung to it,
1t and was now calmly dropping to an
% other. Old Indaba-zimbi had also
n watched this performance with interest,
|. but it did not seem to astonish him over
" much. "Baboon woman" he said, as
t; though such people were common, and
lie then turned his attention to soothing
k Tota, who was moaning for more water.
< Meanwhile Hendrika came down the
d. tree with extraordinary rapidity, and
swinging by one hand from bough
,e dropped about ten feet to the ground.
id In another two minutes we were all
Y, three sucking the pulpy fruit. In an or
n. binary way we should have found il
" tasteless enough; as it was thought il
] the most delicious thing l had evel
" tasted. After three days spent without