xiy ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Scene in the Valley of Desolation at Graaff Reinet, 



Cape Colony To face page 52 



A MuiSHOND OR Stink Cat ,, 60 



Typical South African Scorpions .... „ 60 



Baboonfolk on the Top of a Rocky Hill ... „ 70 



An Old Drunken Reprobate „ 80 



A Sentinel Chacma Baboon „ 85 



A Baboonfolk Youth and Youngster in their Native 



Home „ 86 



The Poison Fangs of the sullen Puff Adder . . „ 98 

 A Puff Adder braced up ready to deliver a Fatal 



Thrust 98 



Green and Black Mambas „ 100 



The Vervet Monkey of South Africa . . . . „ 100 



A Baboon Warrior's Weapons „ 100 



A Gorilla of Central Africa 108 



Lioness ,,115 



The Mandrill of West Central Africa ... ,,120 



Vervet or Blaauw-Aapje ,,122 



Blue Ape or Vervet Monkey Two Months old . . „ 123 

 The Homes of the Vervet Monkeyfolk . . . „ 123 

 Complete Skeleton of a Vervet Monkey or Blaauw- 

 Aapje ,,124 



Hands and Feet of Apes and Monkeys . . . „ 125 



One of the Baboonfolk of West Central Africa . „ 125 



The Ghost of Cuyler Manor „ 135 



Vervet Monkey or Blaauw-Aapje ,, 139 



Termites or " White Ants " and their Development „ 142 



The Serval ,,145 



The Caracal, Lynx, or Rooi-kat ,,146 



The Kafir Cat ,,146 



