IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



mother had got tired and gone away for good into the 

 forest, leaving her offspring to his fate, for we no 

 longer heard her cries. 



" We made a little bed of leaves and used to leave 

 Ndova upon it in the sun. We had gone into our 

 huts one afternoon. After a while I came out of the 

 house and just in time. For Ndova's mother had 

 apparently been watching from a tree and seeing no- 

 body had come down and had taken hold of Ndova 

 and was carrying him away into the forest as fast as 

 she could. I shouted with all my might, and Ndova 

 lost his hold and dropped to the ground. 



" We went into the forest and made a trap to catch 

 the mother, and brought the little monkey and put 

 him in the trap. We were then sure that she would 

 come and see him and try to get him away. When 

 everything was ready, we hid and waited. After a 

 time we saw a monkey quietly coming down a tree. 

 It was the mother ; we recognized her by her white 

 nose. She uttered a sound of joy as she approached 

 Ndova. Then she got into the cage, and the trap- 

 door closed behind her. 



" When we came towards the cage, the big monkey 

 was much frightened. We took the cage with us. 



"The mother nursed the little one for over ten 

 moons (months), and after that she stayed with him 

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