THE MAGIC OF INDABA-ZIMBI We gained the spot by the stream where Stella had been taken.

The natives looked at the torn fragments of the dogs, and at the marks of violence, and I heard them swearing to each other, that whether the Star lived or died they would not rest till they had exterminated every baboon on Babyan's Peak.

I echoed the oath, and, as shall be seen, we kept it.
We started on along the stream, following the spoor of the baboons as we best could.

But the stream left no spoor, and the hard, rocky banks very little.

Still we wandered on.