Only Hendrika stood looking at the brutes with an unconcerned smile on her monkey face.

When the great apes were quite near, she suddenly called aloud.

Instantly they stopped their hideous clamour as though at a word of command.

Then Hendrika addressed them: I can only describe it so.
That is to say, she began to make a noise such as baboons do when they converse with each other.

I have known Hottentots and Bushmen who said that they could talk with the baboons and understand their language, but I confess I never heard it done before or since.
From the mouth of Hendrika came a succession of grunts, groans, squeals, clicks, and every other abominable noise that can be conceived, conveying to my mind a general idea of expostulation.