You know how imitative monkeys are ?" I nodded.
"Then all we have to do is to make a ring of our men round the kopje there, and drive the baboons into the court here.

From the court we could turn them into one of the passages between the walls, stop up the ends, and capture the lot." "To eat ?" I said sarcastically.
"Eat, man?
No; to drill, and teach them to forage for us, just as the Malays teach the monkeys to pick coco-nuts for them." "Drill them?
Ah! there is a baboon called a `drill.' Yes, go on," I said.
"We could send them out every night, and they'd come back laden with mealies for us; and there you are." "Nice evening, gentlemen," said Sergeant Briggs, who had just climbed to our side.

"I've been using the Major's glass.

My word! they've got wagon after wagon loaded with stores across yonder.

Is there any way of cutting out one or two, for we must not go on living upon horse ?" I looked hard at the speaker, and then at Denham, and the result was that we astonished the Sergeant, for both Denham and I burst out laughing, and Joeboy smiled as widely as he could..