You see Hendrika--we named her that after Hendrik, who caught her--she is a woman, not a monkey, and yet she has many of the ways of monkeys, and looks like one too.

You saw how she can climb, for instance, and you hear how she talks.

Also she is very savage, and when she is angry or jealous she seems to go mad, though she is as clever as anybody.

I think that she must have been stolen by the baboons when she was quite tiny and nurtured by them, and that is why she is so like them.
"But to go on.

My father said that it was our duty to keep Hendrika at any cost.