84 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



In addition to Dogs, Goats, and Sheep, Leopards kill a large 

 number of Jackals, while they are determined foes to Mon- 

 keys and Baboons, pursuing the former in India into their 

 haunts in the trees, while the latter they attack among the 

 rocks. 



Whatever may be the case in Africa, it is wJl ascertained 

 that, in India, Leopards not unfrequently take to man-eating, 

 and there are many instances on record of the fearful destruc- 

 tion of human life inflicted by such individuals. The following 

 account of one of these man-eating Leopards, which haunted the 

 district of Rampur Bauleah, was recently published in an Indian 

 newspaper. On a certain night the creature broke through the 

 mat-wall of a native hut, and made its way into the interior. 

 Inside the hut were sleeping a man, his wife, two or three 

 women, a goat, and a girl nine years of age. The Leopard 

 seized the girl by the throat, and attempted to drag her through 

 the hole. Being seized tight by the throat, the girl could not 

 scream, but was almost suffocated. The hole was not big 

 enough to allow the girl's body to pass out while the brute held 

 her by the throat, and the Leopard, thereupon, let go his hold 

 upon her throat, and seized her by the foot and dragged her 

 through. As soon as he had let go his hold on her throat, she 

 screamed loudly, awaking the inmates of the hut, and the man, 

 thinking that the goat was being carried off, rushed out with a 

 big stick. The Leopard had, however, carried the girl about 

 a hundred yards before the man came up with her. He then 

 belaboured the animal with his big stick, when the Leopard let 

 go his hold and fled into the jungle. The girl was brought to 

 the medical missionary, but though everything that surgical and 

 medical skill could effect had been done, she was not likely to 

 survive, as her wounds were of a terrible nature. About a year 

 previously the Collector of the same district, with twelve Ele- 

 phants and a party of Europeans, succeeded in killing another 



