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The forest teemed with life, and yet there was borne in upon the ape-man a sense
of unutterable loneliness, a sensation that he never before had felt in his beloved
jungles. There was unreality in everything about him--in the valley itself, lying
hidden and forgotten in what was supposed to be an arid waste. The birds and
the monkeys, while similar in type to many with which he was familiar, were
identical with none, nor was the vegetation without its idiosyncrasies. It was as
though he had been suddenly transported to another world and he felt a strange
restlessness that might easily have been a premonition of danger.
Fruits were growing among the trees and some of these he saw that Manu, the
monkey, ate. Being hungry he swung to the lower branches and, amidst a great
chattering of the monkeys, proceeded to eat such of the fruit as he saw the
monkeys ate in safety. When he had partially satisfied his hunger, for meat alone
could fully do so, he looked about him for Numa of the pit to discover that the
lion had gone.
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