CHAP. VI. LEOPARDS. 289 



I am unable to say, as the African hunter learns to know 

 animals chiefly by their native and local names, and the 

 whole there are colonially spoken of as " tigers." 



The " ingwe," the most common of them, is, I have no 

 doubt, Fells leopardus, and inhabits almost every strip of 

 jungle in South and Eastern Africa, and has been found 

 wherever travellers have as yet penetrated. It is the 

 second in size, and is distinguished by its peculiar mark- 

 ings, having little white spots in the centre of the black, 

 but so unevenly inserted as to debar the black from being 

 called a ring. 



The " ngulule," or maned leopard, is very rare, I 



having only twice met with them. It is considerably 



larger than the ingwe, far more cowardly, and in many 



aspects resembles a young lioness or puma. My late 



friend Mr. Leslie, who had perhaps more acquaintance 



with this subject than any one else, wrote to me as follows 



about them : — 



" I had three skins ; a cub, a half-grown one, and a full-grown 

 one. My Kaffirs did not know what the cub skin was. I got it 

 first. The cub is grey, light, and furry, just like some kittens ; the 

 half -grown one, grey also, but the spots are rather faintly distin- 

 guishable. In the full-grown one they are perfectly so, but very 

 dirty and undefined. There is also the peculiar grey hog mane. 

 This is the ngulule." 



The description of the latter skin, I may add, perfectly 

 agrees with that of those which I have myself seen, and I 

 have no doubt that it is the same animal which the late 

 Mr. Andersson, the discoverer of the Okavango river 

 — who, by the way, seems to use the terms leopard 

 and panther as applied to the same animaP — saw in 



1 Okavango River, p. 204. 

 T 



