IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



from him. He uttered a sort of guttural sound, as 

 if to say, '' All right, you are welcome to it," and 

 he picked another. Then they began to pick them 

 one after another, and four mouthfuls disposed of a 

 large pineapple. 



After a while they moved away. Rogala raised his 

 gun, looking at me. I made a sign to him not to 

 fire. I did not want to kill them. " Perhaps we 

 shall meet them in the forest,'' I said to myself, " and 

 I may have a chance to study their ways." I did not 

 even shout to scare them. They moved off gradually, 

 and we went back to our camp. 



The following day we took Andekko with us. 

 Towards noon we were startled by the fierce barking 

 of the dog, and heard the shrill cry of a nshiego- 

 nkengo. Soon we came to the place, and saw An- 

 dekko looking up a tree at a young nshiego which I 

 thought to be about a year old, and barking fiercely. 

 He was glaring at the dog, the hair of his body erect, 

 and was uttering sounds of defiance, not of fear. He 

 seemed to know that he was safe where he was, and 

 that the dog could not climb the tree. 



" Let us try to capture the baby nshiego-nkengo if 

 we can," said I to Rogala. 



In the meantime Andekko kept barking at the 

 little fellow, who kept looking at him, uttering now 



