HYENAS, MONKEYS, AND PIGS 



a wandering hyena during the daytime, which very seldom 

 happens — he might do so by leaving a freshly killed animal 

 where it fell, without letting any human hand touch the 

 carcass, and then go back to the place the following morn- 

 ing, an hour or two before sunrise. He will then very 

 often find the hyenas still at work, crunching up the bones 

 after they have devoured the meat of the carcass. When 

 one of these animals is killed, the hunter will sometimes 

 have hard work to persuade the natives to touch it, as most 

 of them will have nothing to do with a hyena. This does 

 not much matter, however, for the hyena skin is hardly 

 worth while preserving for the trophy room. 



The monkey is another animal which can scarcely be 

 classed among " game," and yet almost every sportsman 

 who goes to Africa likes to take home a few skins of these 

 creatures for souvenirs and remembrances of happy hunt- 

 ing days in the big forests. It seems to the reader, per- 

 haps, cruel that monkeys are killed at all, as some of them 

 certainly are very "' human " in their behavior and habits ; 

 but it must, on the other hand, not be forgotten that a good 

 many species of monkeys are exceedingly destructive, both 

 to the crops of white men and natives. I once visited a 

 settler not far from Nairobi, who told me that although 

 he, night after night, had been shooting at baboons to 

 make them leave his garden alone, yet he found that the 

 cunning creatures would sneak in when he least expected 

 it, and so almost make him despair of the result of his 

 labors. In certain districts of East Africa one of the 

 smaller fur monkeys, with beautiful olive-green skin, by 

 the natives called " engimma," is so destructive to their 



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