Otherwise they declared that the baboons would bite, but if well-whipped they would become "miskeen"(humble).

At length by wife insisted upon mercy, and the unfortunate captives wore an expression of countenance like prisoners about to be led to execution, and they looked imploringly at our faces, in which they evidently discovered some sympathy with their fate.

They were quickly placed on horseback before their captors, and once more we continued our journey, highly amused with the little entr' acte.
We had hardly ridden half a mile when I perceived a fine bull tetel standing near a bush a few hundred yards distant.

Motioning to the party to halt, I dismounted, and with that the little Fletcher rifle I endeavored to obtain a shot.

When within about a hundred and seventy yards, he observed our party, and I was obliged to take the shot, although I could have approached unseen to a closer distance, had his attention not been attracted by the noise of the horses.