This was indeed a grateful surprise, so he entered the shade at once.
Benee, after his exciting fight and his very long run, greatly needed rest, so he gathered some splendid fruit and nuts, despite the chattering and threatened attacks of a whole band of hideous baboons, and then threw himself down under the shade of a tree in a small glade and made a hearty meal.
He felt thirsty now. But as soon as there was silence once more in the forest, and even the parrots had gone to sleep in the drowsy noontide heat, he could hear the rush of water some distance ahead.
He got up immediately and marched in the direction from which the sound came, and was soon on the pebbled shore of another burn.
He drank a long, sweet draught of the cool, delicious water, and felt wondrously refreshed.
And now a happy thought occurred to him.
Sooner or later he felt certain the savages would find his trail. They would track him to this stream and believe he had once again tried to break the pursuit by wading either up or down stream.
His plan was, therefore, to go carefully back on his tracks and rest hidden all day until, foiled in their attempt to make him prisoner, they should return homeward.
This plan he carried into immediate execution, and in a thicket, quite screened from all observation, he laid him down.
He was soon fast asleep.