AS TO BABOONS. 



is a curiosity well worth seeing. In Borneo is found a long-nosed monkey who is 

 about as frightful-looking a creature as can be imagined." 



" I hope we shall be able to capture a mandrill when we go north on our gorilla 

 hunt," remarked Bob Marshall. 



"It isn't probable, for they do not frequent the same section of country. But 

 any subject, no matter how interesting at first, becomes tiresome after a time, so 



we'll drop that of baboons." 



It still lacked considerable of daylight, and Jack 



: 



Harvey decided to return to his sleeping quarters, asking that he should be called 

 if any more visitors put in an appearance before daylight. The director stayed 

 with the boys, and made a tour of the stockade to see that all their prisoners 

 were safe. 



So far as they could discover, nothing was amiss. The large giraffe had shown 

 some excitement during the flurry caused by the baboons, but she quieted down on 

 the disappearance of the visitors, and, with that docility which is characteristic of 

 the gentle creatures, seemed to have become quite suited with her novel quarters. 



