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a boy for a woman. Mrs. Baker was dressed similar to myself 

 in a pair of loose trousers and gaiters, with a blouse and belt 

 the only difference being that she wore long sleeves, while my 

 a?ms were bare from a few inches below the shoulder." 



A MONKEY AND OLD IBRAHIM. 



TOMBE, chief of the tribe, was not long in making his appear- 

 ance, with a gourd full of honey and a pot of native beer, which 

 was very refreshing. The chief drove the importunate natives 

 away, Baker having gained his favor by giving him a variety of 

 beads and copper bracelets. This display of presents brought 

 the natives back again, when they discovered Mrs. Baker's pet 

 monkey, one of a red species of Abyssinia, quite unknown to 

 them. This attracted their attention, but the monkey resisted 

 all attempts at familiarity by viciously attacking their unprotected 

 legs, which made the crowd roar with laughter, and resulted in 

 winning their friendship. 



The humpback was employed as interpreter, and the party then 

 moved on, Baker believing that he had distanced the hated Turk, 

 and would be able to pass through Ellyria, which was now only 

 six miles distant, before they could reach there. The remainder 

 of the road, however, was extremely rough, and ran through a 

 rocky defile, from the heights of either side of which a few 

 savages might, by rolling down stones, have destroyed an army. 

 Baker could not help feeling some alarm at the position he was 

 now in, for it would take him several hours to pass through this 

 place ; he knew it was here that more than one hundred traders 

 met their deaths at the hands of the barbarous Ellyrians, and he 

 therefore felt a growing insecurity as he neared the principal 

 village of that tribe, realizing that the Turks must be very close 

 in his rear. 



Just before emerging onto the plain, within a mile of Ellyria, 

 he was horrified to see the Turks immediately in the rear of his 

 party, and they soon marched by without the slighest recogni- 

 tion. He felt that all must now be lost, and with no definite 

 plan to pursue he stood still till the hated caravan had gone by, 

 and Ibrahim, who was some distance in the rear, approached. 



