with fl

 baboons. She spoke to Hendrika

in English and Kaffir, imploring her to let them go; but the woman, if I
may call her so, seemed in her madness
to have entirely forgotten these tongues. When
Stella spoke she would kiss
her and stroke her hair, but she did not seem to understand what it was
she said. On the other hand, she could, and did, talk to the baboons,
that seemed to obey
her implicitly. Moreover, she would not allow them to touch either
Stella or the child in her arms. Once one of them tried to do so, and
she seized a dead stick and struck it
so heavily on the head that it fell senseless. Thrice Stella made an
attempt to escape, for sometimes even Hendrika's giant strength waned
and she had to set them down. But on each occasion she caught them, and
it was in these struggles that Stella's clothes were so torn. At length
before daylight they reached the cliff, and with the first break of
light the ascent began. Hendrika dragged them up the
first stages, but when they came to the precipitous place she tied
the strips of hide, of which she had
a supply wound round her waist, beneath Stella's arms. Steep as the
place was the baboons
ascended it easily enough, springing from a knock of rock to
the trunk of the tree that grew on the edge of the
crevasse.

Hendrika followed them, holding the end of the hide reim in her teeth,
one of the baboons hanging down from the tree to assist her ascent. It
was while she was
ascending that Stella bethought
of letting fall her handkerchief
in the faint hope that some searcher might see it. By this time Hendrika

was on the tree, and grunting out orders to the baboons which clustered
about Stella below. Suddenly these seized her and little Tota who was in
her arms, and lifted her from the ground. Then Hendrika above, aided by
other baboons,
put out all her great strength and pulled the two
of them up the rock. Twice Stella swung heavily against the cliff. After
the second
blow she felt her senses going, and was consumed with terror lest she
should drop
Tota. But she m

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