The Baboon-woman

"Come down, you savage, come down!" she said, stamping her foot.

The extraordinary creature flung herself from the horse and literally
grovelled on the ground before her mistress and burst into tears.

"Pardon, Miss Stella," she clicked and grunted in villainous English,
"but he called me 'Babyan-frau' (Baboon-woman)."

"Tell your servant that he must not use such words to Hendrika, Mr.
Allan," Stella said to me. "If he does," she added, in a whisper,
"Hendrika will certainly kill him."

I explained this to Indaba-zimbi, who, being considerably frightened,
deigned to apologize. But from that hour there was hate and war between
these two.

Harmony having been thus restored, we started, the dogs following us.
A small strip of desert intervened between us and the slope of the
peak--perhaps it was two miles wide. We crossed it and reached rich
grass lands, for here a considerable stream gathered from the hills; but
it did not flow across the barren lands, it passed to the east along
the foot of the hills. This stream we had to cross by a ford. Hendrika
walked boldly through it, holding Tota in her arms. Stella leapt across
from stone to stone like a roebuck; I thought to myself that she was the
most graceful creature that I had ever seen. After this the track passed
around a pleasantly-wooded shoulder of the peak, which was, I found,
known as Babyan Kap, or Baboon Head. Of course we could only go at
a foot pace, so our progress was slow. Stella walked for some way in
silence, then she spoke.