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