The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26

oOi 0oiiiiiiS, anu Wnen we got OutSld
they were nowhere to be seen.
"'Come on, miss said Hendrix: .tb
babyan will soon be back He ha
shouldered the sack, inside which tn
white baboon was kicking violently, an
screaming like a child. 1t was dreadfr
to hear its shrieks.
1--WE scrambled down the sides of tn
kloof AID ran for home as fast as w
could manage. When we were near tn
waterfall, and within about 800 wards O
the garden wall we heard a voice be
hind us, and there, leaping from rock t.
rock, and running over the grass, wa
the whole family of balloons headed b,
the old man.
Run, miss, runr gasped Hendrix
and did like the wind, leaving him ia,
behind. dashed into the garden, wher,
some haffirs were working, crying. Tho
babyans! the babyans!' Luckily the mer
had their sticks and spears by them and
ran out just in time to save Hendrix
who was almost overtaken. The be oons
made good fight for it, however, and il
was not till the old man was killed with
an assegai that they ran away.
We'll, there is a little hut in the kraa]
at the stead where my father sometimes
shuts up natives who have misbehayed.
Ii Is very strong, and has barred win
dow. To this hut Hendrix carried the
sack, and, having united the mouth. put
it down on the floor, and ran from tbe
place, shutting the door behind him. In
another moment the poor little thing
was out and dashing round the stone hut
as though 1t were mad. Itsprung at the
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.
sell backwards and forwards. 1t was so
sad to see it that l began to cry too.
Just then my father came in and
asked what all the fuss was about. T
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 astonisb-
ment.
Why! he said, this is not a baboon.
1t Is a white child that the balloons have
stolen and brought upr
Now, Mr.. Allan, whether nv 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
them. Inv
But to go on. My father said that if
was our duty to keep Hendrika at any
cost The worst of it was that for three |
days she would eat nothing, and 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 cup of milk
and some fruit to her. She looked at if
Tor long while, then crept up moan
ing, took the milk from my hand and
drank 1t greedily, and afterwards ate the
irult. From that time forward she took
sood readily enough, but only if | would
iced her. BUT | must tell Won Of tba
dreadful end of Hendrix. From the
day that we captured Hendrika the
whole place began to swarm with ba-
ooons which were evidently employed in
the kraals. One day Hendrix
went out towards the hills alone to
gather some medicine. He did not come
pack again, SO next day search was
made. By a big rock which can show
you they found his scattered and broken
bones, the fragments Of his assegai and
our dead balloons. They had set upon
lim and torn him to pieces.
My father was very much frightened
1t this, but still he would not let Hen
trika go, because he said that she was l
human. and that it was our duty to re- S
,laim her. And so we did-to a certain I
'xtent, at least. After the murder of |
hendrix the balloons vanished from the 1
lelghborhood, and have only returned
lu1te recently, so at length we ventured
let Hendrika out. By this time she
lad grown very fond of me; still on the
lrst opportunity she ran away. But in
he evening she returned again. She
ad been seeking the balloons, and could
ot ind them. Shortly afterwards she
egan to speak, taught her-and from
hat time she has loved me so that she
I'LL not leave me. think it would kill
er If | went away from her. She
catches me all day, and at night sleeps
the floor of my hut. Once, too, she
aved my life when l was swept down
ne river in flood; but she is jealous. and
ates everybody else. Look how she is
larIng at you now because am talking 8
, you'll" q
L looked. Hendrika was trampinp
ong with the child in her arms and
airing at me in most sinister fashion 70
1T of the corners of her eyes. ~
While l was rejecting on the baboon ID
omans strange story, and thinking a. a.
lat she was an exceedingly awkward u. u,
lstomer, the path took sudden turn. =. =.
"Look!" said Stella, there is our VI
ouse. Is it not beautiful" w
1t was beautiful indeed Here on the &c &c
estern side of the great peak bay had Id
en formed In the mountain, which =.
light have measured eight hundred or 4 .a
ousand yards across by three-quarters VI vi
a mile in depth. At the back of the I'd.
dentation the sheer cliff rose to the iiii
light of several hundred feet, and be- 20,