IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



gun by my side. I think I should have shot him for 

 daring to try to make Ndova run away. 



Ndova kept moving up and down his pole, now 

 and then running about on the ground, making great 

 efforts to get to his kind the ndovas. 



Suddenly all the monkeys joined in a chorus, which 

 excited Ndova very much. Then they all came down 

 the tree together, and soon I saw their heads peeping 

 over the palisades and looking silently at Ndova, the 

 big fellow being in the centre of them, his big human- 

 like eyes glancing all round. Then they all uttered a 

 peculiar sound, which probably meant " Come on, come 

 on," for Ndova tried anew to go to them. But they 

 did not dare to come inside towards him. All at once 

 I emerged from my hiding-place, and at the sight 

 of me they fled, uttering piercing cries of fright. 



On the return of Rogala I told him what had 

 happened. 



He replied : " Oguizi, monkeys are a kind of 

 human beings." 



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