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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Who were Korak and A'ht?" he asked. "A'ht was a Mangani," replied Meriem, "and Korak a Tarmangani." "And what, pray, might a Mangani be, and a Tarmangani?" The girl laughed. "You are a Tarmangani," she replied. "The Mangani are covered with hair you would call them apes." "Then Korak was a white man?" he asked. "Yes."
"Yes, I lived, almost naked, among the great apes and the lesser apes. I dwelt among the branches of the trees. I pounced upon the smaller prey and devoured it raw. With Korak and A'ht I hunted the antelope and the boar, and I sat upon a tree limb and made faces at Numa, the lion, and threw sticks at him and annoyed him until he roared so terribly in his rage that the earth shook.
From her speech she was evidently an Arab girl; but he had never before seen one thus clothed. "Who are your people? Who is Korak?" he asked again. "Korak! Why Korak is an ape. I have no other people. Korak and I live in the jungle alone since A'ht went to be king of the apes." She had always thus pronounced Akut's name, for so it had sounded to her when first she came with Korak and the ape.
"How long have you been an ape?" asked the man. "Since I was a little girl, many, many years ago, and Korak came and took me from my father who was beating me. Since then I have lived in the trees with Korak and A'ht." "Where in the jungle lives Korak?" asked the stranger. Meriem pointed with a sweep of her hand that took in, generously, half the continent of Africa.
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