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food-stuffs stolen from the gardens of their more 
highly-developed fellow-primates. In the inhabited 
region of Kilima-njaro, generally known as the country 
of Caga, baboons were strangely abundant. They 
were generally in flocks of fourteen to twenty, of all 
ages, and both sexes. They were so little molested 
by the natives that they showed small fear of man, 
and, instead of running away, would often stop to 
look at me about twenty yards off, and the old males 
would show their teeth and grunt. I have frequently 
seen the natives driving them from the plantations, as 
they might a troop of naughty boys, and the baboons 
retreating with swollen cheek-pouches, often dragging 
after them a portion of the spoil. On one occasion, in 
a river-bed at the foot of Kilima-njaro, my Indian 
servant, ordinarily a very plucky boy, met a troop of 
baboons, who, instead of fleeing up into the trees, 
came running towards him in a very menacing manner, 
and he was so frightened at their aspect that he took 
to his heels. The baboons followed, and, but that the 
boy forded the shallow stream, and put the water 
between him and his pursuers, he might have had an 
awkward contest. I killed a baboon once in Caga, 
one of a troop who were rifling a maize plantation, 
and its companions, instead of running away, sur¬ 
rounded the corpse and snarled at me. As I had fired 
off both barrels of my gun, and had no more ammuni¬ 
tion, I went back to my settlement to fetch some of 
my followers, and upon the approach of several men 
the baboons ran off. We picked up the dead one and 
carried it back. It was a female, and apparently 
young and tender. Out of curiosity I had its flesh 
cooked the next day and ate it , 1 hoping in this lawful 
1 The natives of many parts of Africa greatly esteem the baboon as 
