Once one of them tried to do so, and she seized a dead stick and struck it so heavily on the head that it fell senseless.

Thrice Stella made an attempt to escape, for sometimes even Hendrika's giant strength waned and she had to set them down.

But on each occasion she caught them, and it was in these struggles that Stella's clothes were so torn.

At length before daylight they reached the cliff, and with the first break of light the ascent began.

Hendrika dragged them up the first stages, but when they came to the precipitous place she tied the strips of hide, of which she had a supply wound round her waist, beneath Stella's arms.
Steep as the place was the baboons ascended it easily enough, springing from a knock of rock to the trunk of the tree that grew on the edge of the crevasse.