The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-04-16

bars Of the window, chung there, and
beat its head against them till the blood
came. Then it fell to the floor, and sat
there crying like child, and rocking it.
self backwards and forwards. 1t was so
sad to see it that began to cry too.
Just then my father came in and
asked what all the fuss was about. |
told him that we had caught a young
white baboon, and he was angry, and
said that it must be let go. But when he
looked at it through the bars of the win
dow he nearly fell down with astonish-
ment.
"'Whyr he said, this is not balloon,
it is white child that the balloons have
stolen and brought upr
Nov, Mr.. Allan, whether my father
is right or wrong, you can judge for
yourself. You see Hendrika-we named
her that after Hendrix, who caught her
she is a 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 go mad. though she
is as clever as anybody. think that she
must have been stolen by the balloons
when she was quite tiny and nurtured
by them, and that is why she is so like
them.
'sBut 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
do oh> I
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 a 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 chat time forward she took
food readily enough, but only if would
feed her. But l 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 an'. broken
bones. the fragments Of his assesai and
four dead balloons 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 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 murder of
Hendrix the balloons 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
Intervening 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
gIaring at you now because am talking
to you!''
looked. Hendrika was tramping
along with the child in her arms and