Raffles, walking with the uneasy gait of a town loiterer obliged to do a bit of country journeying on foot, looked as incongruous amid this moist rural quiet and industry as if he had been a baboon escaped from a menagerie.
At last the Biggest Baboon got up and said, "I do not think we ought to let this good man leave our land till we have given him a fine present to take with him, so that he may know we are grateful for all that he has done for us.
then he started again, and said he:"Let me ask the evolutionist a question --- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?
" Prof Kirkpatrick also provides this sample of Nigerian pidgin English: "Monkey de work, baboon dey chop" (Monkeys work, baboons eat).
