84 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
In addition to Dogs, Goats and Sheep, Leopards killa 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 well 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. Assoonashe 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 witha 
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 | 
