With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



prisoner, chained before the gates of the fort. A most 

 intimate friendship had sprung up between this great, 

 dangerous-looking baboon and a little native child about 

 eighteen months old. From some hut in the vicinity the 

 little one crawled on all-fours to the monkey, and played 

 fearlessly with his huge friend for many hours every- 

 day in a very droll and amusing fashion. 



On Christmas Eve in 1899, when we were all within 

 the walls of the fort expecting an attack by the natives, 

 all the inhabitants of the station suddenly poured in like 

 a Hock of sheep about nine o'clock. The baboon, stricken 

 with fear, managed somehow to break loose, and joined 

 the rush into the fort. 



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