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Updated: June 6, 2025
We were simply safe for the moment as our disappearance into the hollow of the tree, being sudden and unexpected, had taken the mandrills by surprise, and they had not followed us inside.
Sometimes they will assault even elephants, while they without hesitation encounter the leopard and hyena. The leopard, however, retaliates, and when he finds one alone springs on it, and seldom fails to come off the victor. The mandrills are another species of baboon who inhabit this region. They are remarkable for the brilliancy and variety of their colour.
We stayed not much longer under the shadow of the baobab. It was dangerous ground. The mandrills might discover the cheat and come back; so, with this apprehension in our thoughts, we took a hasty leave of our aged friends the mummies, and hurried rapidly down the hill. We halted only to drink, and then pushed onward.
A rabbit could scarce have glided more rapidly into its burrow; and, before any of the pursuing mandrills could lay a tooth upon our skirts, we had got inside, and were once more in the company of the skeletons. Do not suppose that we considered ourselves safe.
If this was to be the case, we could have no hope of escape. The mandrills might remain upon the ground as long as they pleased. Some might go off to obtain food and drink, while the others watched; and thus they could relieve one another.
But all the remainder of the monkey tribe the chimpanzees, the sajous, the sakis, the mandrills, the baboons, and so on are sociable in the highest degree. They live in great bands, and even join with other species than their own. Most of them become quite unhappy when solitary.
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