With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



scurry back to their nearest hiding-place. Should this be 

 an ant-hill, and we have the patience to wait an hour or 

 two in hiding, we shall first see one little head, then several, 

 peer out of the holes of their clay fortress, which soon is 

 alive again with their activity. Now playing and romping, 

 now assuring themselves of their safety, the little sprites 

 run round and round the ant-hill. Squirrels behave in a 

 similar way, though not in large numbers — alone always, or 

 in pairs. 



Sometimes ichneumons are found in company with 

 rock-badgers {Procai'ia) which, in like manner, often 

 take up their abode in ant-hills. More frequently, how- 

 ever, they are to be found in the rocky districts of the 

 hills, high up or low down, according to the season of 

 the year. 



These animals, as well as the tree-badgers, which 

 dwell chiefly in forests, and especially in mountain 

 forests, are closely allied to the rhinoceroses, a fact 

 which is hardly credible at first sight. In German 

 East Africa there are three kinds of rock-badgers [Pro- 

 cavia johnstoui. Pr. nwssaiubica, and Pr. inatschiei), 

 and two kinds of tree-badgers {^Dcndrohy7'ax validus, 

 and D. neitnianui), curious, tiny, flat-footed animals. 

 They are very like marmots in their ways, and the 

 old experienced rock-badgers especially are not easy to 

 ensnare. The tree-badgers have a quaint, scolding kind 

 of cry. 



Hardly has the sun gone down and the camp-fires 

 been lit when we suddenly hear above our heads in the 

 great forest a rustling, a peculiar chuckling and mewing 



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