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"What was that?" said Alexander; "I see nothing." "I know what it is," said the Major; "it is a herd of baboons; there they are; don't you see their heads over the rocks?" "Let them show themselves a little more, and we'll have a shot at them," replied Alexander, cocking his gun.
It was he also who had brought back the dog to the Chimneys, who rescued Top from the waters of the lake, who caused to fall at Flotsam Point the case containing so many things useful to the colonists, who conveyed the canoe back into the stream of the Mercy, who cast the cord from the top of Granite House at the time of the attack by the baboons, who made known the presence of Ayrton upon Tabor Island, by means of the document enclosed in the bottle, who caused the explosion of the brig by the shock of a torpedo placed at the bottom of the canal, who saved Herbert from a certain death by bringing the sulphate of quinine; and finally, it was he who had killed the convicts with the electric balls, of which he possessed the secret, and which he employed in the chase of submarine creatures.
We returned to the dead tetel and to our captive baboons; but times had changed since we had left them. One had taken advantage of our absence, and, having bitten through his tether, had escaped. The other had used force instead of cunning, and, in attempting to tear away from confinement, had strangled himself with the slip-knot of the rope.
It was a doctrine born of the howling and barking and growling of wild beasts; it was born in the grin of the hyenas, and of the depraved chatter of the baboons; and I despise it with every drop of my blood. Tell me there is a God in the serene heaven that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!
He shot a furtive glance at the thickly plastered face and inwardly pitied himself while outwardly rejoicing. "Some of the people who entertain baboons at dinner, I suppose," she said through compressed lips. He smiled. "And poodles," he supplemented with perfect amiability and more truth than he knew. She sniffed. "I'm afraid you don't approve of our little larks.
He watched them with the intentness of a panther about to spring upon its prey. He saw them rise and, shouting, attempt to frighten away the baboons as they approached the cage. Then one of them raised his rifle and fired into the midst of the surprised and angry herd.
They picked over the ashes and found burnt bits of former treasures the baby's cot, the old grandfather's chair, the parlour clock. Or they went into houses still standing neat and perfect, and found that some insanity of rage had smashed up all their household, as though baboons had been at play or fighting through the rooms.
Reviewing General Jacob's 'Progress of Being' in the 'Saturday Review 'of May 22, 1858, he remarks that the argument from development is totally irrelevant. 'What difference can it make, he asks, 'whether millions of years ago our ancestors were semi-rational baboons? This, I may add, is also the old-fashioned empirical view.
Suddenly he stopped in the middle of the path. The elder hedges were leading to an open plain, and La Richaudiere appeared amid its lofty trees. 'Hold hard! of course, exclaimed Claude, 'I hadn't thought about it you're going to that shanty. Oh! the baboons; there's a lot of ugly mugs, if you like! Dubuche, looking vexed at this outburst of artistic feeling, protested stiffly.
"There's no need," I said; "the enemy is scuttling off as fast as he can go." "Retreating?" "Seems like it. Why, Denham, can't you see?" "See? No! What? Speak out, before it's too late." "Look again," I said, laughing. "It's a troop of baboons." "What!" cried Denham. "Well, of all the absurd things! So it is."
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