196 FOUR-HANDED FOLK. 



pull one, then, is as useful as a man, and is a 

 true worker. 



Another valuable monkey is the chacma of 

 Africa. When young, this baboon is very 

 teachable, and is often kept by the Kaffirs as a 

 domestic animal. He takes the place of a dog, 

 growling when a stranger comes near ; and if it 

 becomes necessary to defend his master's prop- 

 erty, he is much stronger than any dog. 



The chacma easily learns to blow the bellows 

 of a smith, and to drive horses or oxen ; but his 

 greatest use in that country is to find water. 



In the hot season, when the earth is parched 

 and springs and streams are dry, the owner of a 

 tame chacma takes him out to hunt for the water 

 they all must have. 



The intelligent monkey seems to know what 

 is wanted, or perhaps he knows by his own feel- 

 ings what to look for, and he goes carefully over 

 the ground, looking earnestly at every tuft of 

 grass and eagerly sniffing the breeze on every 

 side. Whether he scents it pr not is not known, 

 but if there is water in the neighborhood he is 

 sure to find it. It may be a deep spring, in 

 which case he sets to work digging down to it ; 

 and it may be a certain very juicy root, which 

 often serves instead of water. He gets that out 

 also ; and let us hope he has his full share of it, 

 to pay for his work. 



