Chapter 24 Summary

Nhamo has plans for the tiny island offshore of the big island. She will plant her garden there, but the only problem is the deformed baboon who lives on the island. One day, she sees him lying on the ground. She thinks he is dead, but when she pokes him with a stick he starts, raging at her. She is seriously frightened, and angry. Nhamo goes back to the big island to gather some fruit for this lonely baboon. She makes a trail of the fruit for him to follow to the big island so he will abandon the little island and let her plant her garden. He does leave and she plants her garden.

She spends her days busily tending to her garden, building her boat, and gathering food. In the evenings, the baboons have been sleeping elsewhere, but one night they...