With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



prisoner, chained before the gates of the fort. A most 

 intimate friendship had sprung up between this great, 

 danoerous-lookinof baboon and a little native child about 

 eighteen months old. From some hut in the vicinity the 

 little one crawled on all-tours to the monkey, and played 

 fearlessly with his huge triend tor nian\" hours every 

 day in a very droll and amusing fashion. 



On Christmas Eve in 1899, when we were all within 

 the walls of the fort expecting an attack by the natives, 

 all the inhabitants of the station suddenly poured in like 

 a ilock of sheep about nine o'clock. The baboon, stricken 

 with fear, managed somehow to break loose, and joined 

 the rush into the tort. 



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