LEOPARDS AND RHINOS 105 
somehow in the excitement the door had been closed. 
One after the other the men fled out of the window, 
leaving the dog to his fate. A traveller had a similar 
but more painful experience with a leopard at the 
Dak Bungalow at Voi. Voi is a station on the 
Uganda Railroad where there was, and I suppose still 
is, a railroad hotel of a rather primitive kind known 
as the Dak Bungalow. One night a man was sleeping 
in one of the Bungalow rooms and, hearing a com- 
motion outside, he started out to see what it was. As 
he passed through the open doorway on to the porch 
_ he was attacked by the leopard that had evidently 
come stalking his dogs. 
Leopards are not particularly afraid of man. J] 
never knew one to attack a man unprovoked except 
when caught at such close quarters as the case at 
Voi, but they prowl around man’s habitation without 
compunction. I had a camp in Somaliland once 
where the tents were surrounded by two thorn thick- 
ets—the inner and outer zarebaz. A leopard came in 
one night, killed a sheep, dragged it under the very 
fly of my tent on the way out, jumped the zareda, 
and gotaway. Fifteen years ago, when Nairobi wasa 
very small place, the daughter of one of the govern- 
ment officers went into her room one evening to dress. 
As she opened the door she heard a noise and looking 
she noticed the end of a leopard’s tail sticking out 
from under the bed with the tip gently moving from 
side to side. With great presence of mind the young 
lady quietly went out and closed the door. Nairobi 
had many possibilities of thrills in those days. It 
