reatures--wild
dogs they seemed--that rushed growling and snapping in upon it from all
sides, so that they sank their white fangs into the slow brute and were
away again before it could reach them with its huge paws or sweeping
tail.

But these were not all that my startled eyes perceived. Chattering and
gibbering through the lower branches of the trees came a company of
manlike creatures evidently urging on the dog pack. They were to all
appearances strikingly similar in aspect to the Negro of Africa. Their
skins were very black, and their features much like those of the more
pronounced Negroid type except that the head receded more rapidly above
the eyes, leaving little or no forehead. Their arms were rather longer
and their legs shorter in proportion to the torso than in man, and
later I noticed that their great toes protruded at right angles from
their feet--because of their arboreal habits, I presume. Behind them
trailed long, slender tails which they used in climbing quite as much
as they did either their hands or feet.

I had stumbled to my feet the moment that I discovered that the
wolf-dogs were holding the dyryth at bay. At sight of me several of
the savage creatures left off worrying the great brute to come slinking
with bared fangs toward me, and as I turned to run toward the trees
again to seek safety among the lower branches, I saw a number of the
man-apes leaping and chattering in the foliage of the nearest tree.

Between them and the beasts behind me there was little choice, but at
least there was a doubt as to the reception these grotesque parodies on
humanity would accord me, while there was none as to the fate which
awaited me beneath the grinning fangs of my fierce pursuers.

And so I raced on toward the trees intending to pass beneath that which
held the man-things and take refuge in another farther on; but the
wolf-dogs were very close behind me--so close that I had despaired of
escaping them, when one of the creatures in the tree above swung down
headforemost, his tail looped about a great limb, and grasping me
beneath my armpits swung me in safety up among his fellows.

There they fell to examining me with the utmost excitement and
curiosity. They picked at my clothing, my hair, and my flesh. They
turned me about to see if I had a tail, and when they discovered that I
was not so equipped they fell into roars of laughter. Their teeth were
very large and white and even, except for the