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breaking his leg, and also mauling his two Somali gun- 

 bearers. The lion then crawled off into some bushes fifty 

 yards away, and camp was pitched where the wounded 

 men were lying. Soon after nightfall the hyenas assembled 

 in numbers and attacked, killed, and ate the mortally 

 wounded lion, the noise made by the combatants being 

 ear-rending. On another occasion he had heard a leopard 

 attack some baboons in the rocks, a tremendous row fol- 

 lowing as the big dog baboons hastened to the assistance 

 of the one who had been seized and drove off the leopard. 

 That evening a leopard, evidently the same one, very thin 

 and hungry, came into camp and was shot; it was fright- 

 fully bitten, the injuries being such as only baboons in- 

 flict, and would unquestionably have died of its wounds. 

 The leopard wherever possible takes his kill up a tree, 

 showing extraordinary strength in the performance of this 

 feat. It is undoubtedly due to fear of interference from 

 hyenas. The 'Ndorobo said that no single hyena would 

 meddle with a leopard, but that three or four would with- 

 out hesitation rob it of its prey. Some years before this 

 time, while hunting north of Kenia Lord Delamere had 

 met a Dr. Kolb, who was killed by a rhino immediately 

 afterward. Dr. Kolb was fond of rhinoceros liver, and 

 killed scores of the animals for food; but finally a cow ? 

 with a half-grown calf, which he had wounded charged him 

 and thrust her horn right through the middle of his body. 

 We spent several days vainly hunting bongo in the 

 dense mountain forests, with half a dozen 'Ndorobo. These 

 were true 'Ndorobo, who never cultivate the ground, living 

 in the deep forests on wild honey and game. It has been 

 said that they hunt but little, and only elephant and rhino; 



