Old Indaba-zimbi had also watched this performance with interest, but it did not seem to astonish him over-much.

"Baboon-woman ?" he said, as though such people were common, and then turned his attention to soothing Tota, who was moaning for more water.

Meanwhile Hendrika came down the tree with extraordinary rapidity, and swinging by one hand from a bough, dropped about eight feet to the ground.
In another two minutes we were all three sucking the pulpy fruit.

In an ordinary way we should have found it tasteless enough: as it was I thought it the most delicious thing I had ever tasted.

After three days spent without food or water, in the desert, one is not particular.