IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



howl of pain from him, followed Immediately by a 

 shrill shriek from an animal which I thought must be 

 one of the mandrills I had seen. I hurried as fast as 

 I could towards the place whence the cries came, and 

 once more I heard the fierce barking of Andekko. 



I was not mistaken. When I reached him, as I 

 soon did, Andekko had pinned the mandrill down 

 and they were fighting savagely. Andekko was cov- 

 ered with blood. One of his ears hung limp. He 

 had a terrible gash in his back, and part of his lower 

 lip was badly cut. The mandrill's teeth had made sad 

 havoc with poor Andekko. 



But the mandrill lay underneath him on the ground, 

 the blood flowing from his neck profusely. An- 

 dekko's teeth had probably bitten through the jugular 

 vein. But what big teeth the mandrill had ! When 

 he saw me, he uttered a piercing cry. I shouted to 

 Andekko again and again, but he did not heed my 

 voice in the least. He glared with rage, and his hair 

 stood up straight on his back. Nothing could have 

 made him give up his prey. He had hold of the 

 mandrill in such manner that the latter could not bite 

 him. They rolled on the ground on the top of each 

 other. Andekko clung fast. The mandrill tried with 

 his feet to push Andekko off, and uttered scream after 

 scream. But before long he stopped, and at last all 



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