GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



to me. I always have been a refuge for other 

 people's pets. It soon knew me well and was never 

 afraid of Mark, running up to nose him in the most 

 friendly manner ; but it was frantically afraid of my 

 '* boys," and twisted itself and its string into knots 

 round chairs in its endeavour to get away at their 

 approach ; but none of my pets like the " boys ". At 

 dinner it sat on a chair, or more usually mine, and 

 ate fish, chicken and bananas in turn off a napkin, 

 every now and then plunging to the back of my 

 chair if it thought Ali, my table-boy, was coming 

 near. 



However, my husband thought it such a shame 

 to keep it, as it could not have the exercise it liked, 

 that one day I took it for a long drive, and left it in 

 a bush some way from the road ; and was haunted 

 all the way home by its reproachful eyes, ^hich 

 watched me it seemed in a sad and inquiring way 

 after I had left it on its branch. Somehow it 

 looked so lonely, and the shade of a big mango tree 

 made its shrub so damp and dark. I expect in 

 reality it soon found friends and food ; as just after 

 dusk lemurs begin to move about and bark and call 

 to each other. 



Some twelve or more escaped from a cage a man 

 had in the town, and these, and perhaps others, used 

 to raid people's dining-rooms during the night, com- 

 ing in by the open windows. Twice I had my 

 bananas stolen in that way, and wastefully strewn 



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