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"The horses canna follow us here unless they hae the legs an' airms o' puggies. As for the men, they'd have to cut a track to let their big boots pass. We may tak' it easy, for they're uncommon slow at loadin'." In a few minutes the two friends were beyond all danger.
"Nothing whatever," answered John Skyd, "save that it is between one and two hundred miles more or less inland among the mountains, and that its name, which is Dutch, means the River of Baboons, its fastnesses being filled with these gentry." "Ay, I've heard as much mysel'," returned Sandy, "an' they say the craters are gey fierce. Are there ony o' the big puggies in the Albany district?"
"To think," continued the Scot, "that we should foregather wi' Goliath amang the heeland hills o' Afriky; an' him fond o' his dram tae Hech, man! look there at the puggies." He pointed as he spoke to a part of the precipice where a group of baboons were collected, gazing indignantly and chattering furiously at the intruders on their domain.
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