Then the old man came out, looked carefully round, called to his family, and went off with them over the brow of the kloof.

Now very slowly and cautiously we crept up over the rocks till we came to the mouth of the cave and looked in.

All the four little baboons were fast asleep, with their backs towards us, and their arms round each other's necks, the white one being in the middle.

Nothing could have been better for our plans.

Hendrik, who by this time had quite entered into the spirit of the thing, crept along the cave like a snake, and suddenly dropped the mouth of the hide bag over the head of the white baboon.