IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



detected the presence of monkeys, though we could 

 hear nothing. His calls were soon answered. Then 

 we made him fast to a cord, for fear that he would go 

 away from us. Each side kept on talking and an- 

 swering each other, and the cries of the flock of mon- 

 keys to which he was talking came nearer and nearer. 

 Then they suddenly stopped. Had Ndova warned 

 them not to come nearer ? I thought I had detected 

 a peculiar sound that was unlike those he always ut- 

 tered when he wanted ndovas to come. I might be 

 mistaken, but, after all, they did not come, and we 

 did not hear them utter a single cry. 



We continued on our way. After a while we heard 

 in the distance the fierce and angry barking of An- 

 dekko. We listened, then shouted at the top of 

 our voices, " Andekko, Andekko," so that he 'might 

 know we were not far from him. He was evidently 

 not pursuing game, for the barking was stationary. 



Rogala said to me : " Let us go through the jungle 

 towards him and see what causes this fierce barking.'* 



" Yes," said I, " let us go and see what is the matter.*' 



So we left the path, and went through the thick 

 jungle, breaking some of the branches as we went 

 along to guide us on our way back. 



Louder and louder became Andekko's barking as 

 we neared the spot where he was, when suddenly the 



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