CH. xiv] A TRAPPED LEOPARD 401 



respects overlapping, the bigger preheiisile-lipped rliiiios 

 equalling or surpassing the smaller individuals of the 

 other kind. The huge, square-muzzled head, and the 

 hiuiip. gave the Lado rhino an utterly different look, 

 however, and its habits are also in some important 

 respects different. Our gim-bearers were all East 

 Africans, who had never before been in the Lado. 

 They had been very sceptical when told that the rhinos 

 were different from those they knew, remarking that 

 "all rhinos were the same"; and the first sight of the 

 spoor merely confirmed them in their belief; but they 

 at once recognized the dung as being different ; and 

 when the first animal was down they examined it eagerly 

 and proclaimed it as a rhinoceros with a hump, like 

 their own native cattle, and with the mouth of a 

 hippopotamus. 



On the way to camp, after the death of this bull 



rhhio. I shot a waterbuck b\dl with finer horns than any 



1 had yet obtained. Herds of waterbuck and of kob 



stared tamely at me as T walked along, w^hereas a little 



party of hartebeest were wild and shy. On other occa- 



I sions I have seen this conduct exactly reversed, the 



I hartebeest being tame and the waterbuck and kob shy. 



I Heller, as usual, came out and camped by this rhino, to 



I handle the skhi and skeleton. In the middle of the 



1 night a leopard got caught in one of his small steel 



' traps, which he had set out ^y\th a light drag. The 



I beast made a terrific row% and went off with the trap 



and drag. It was only caught by one toe. A hyena 



similarly caught would have wrenched itself loose, but 



' the leopard, though a far braver and more dangerous 



I beast, has less fortitude under pain than a hyena. 



I Heller tracked it up in the morning, and shot it as, 



] hampered by the trap and drag, it charged the porters. 



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