With Flashlight and Rifle -^ 



Once when I was after some dwarf antelopes [Madoqua 

 kirki) a small lynx came close to me, evidently intent on 

 the same quarry. This gave me an excellent opportunity 

 of observing- its habits, and I was able to kill it as a 

 valuable addition to my collection. 



Another lynx came quite close to me when I 

 was after some ostriches, and gave me an opportunity 

 of brino-inp- off rather a remarkable double shot. The 

 ostriches — sixty-four of them — had been near my camp 

 for some days, but as they were moulting I had left 

 them alone. However, I decided to shoot one of them 

 for the collection of the Royal Museum at Berlin. It 

 was not easy to get near it, but at last I brought it 

 down at a distance of about two hundred paces. Then 

 it was that the lynx came in sight, and with my second 

 bullet I bagged it. 



The desert lynx is not to be met with so often in 

 East Africa, I think, as in the north and south. The 

 genets remain in hiding by daylight, and are often caught 

 in traps. I once killed one which had sought refuge 

 under the gable of a roof at Moshi. 



Generally speaking, the sportsman seldom comes across 

 these smaller beasts of prey — such as genets, honey- 

 badgers, ichneumons, etc. — in the daytime. I myself came 

 upon an otter only once, though I found that the natives 

 living by Lake Victoria possessed skins ot them. 



So it is at home. I remember that I very seldom 

 saw these animals in daylight, and then only for a moment, 

 when in my boyhood I followed their tracks over the 

 Eifel Mountains on my father's estate. 



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