The worst of it was, that for three days she would eat nothing, and I thought that she would die, for all the while she sat and wailed.

On the third day, however, I went to the bars of the window place, and held out a cup of milk and some fruit to her.

She looked at it for a long while, then crept up moaning, took the milk from my hand, drank it greedily, and afterwards ate the fruit.

From that time forward she took food readily enough, but only if I would feed her.
"But I must tell you of the dreadful end of Hendrik.

From the day that we captured Hendrika the whole place began to swarm with baboons which were evidently employed in watching the kraals.