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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



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LEOPARD. 



CHAPTER XLI. 



HUNTING THE LEOPARD WITH DOGS, AND ADVENTURES WITB 

 BUFFALOES AND LIONS. 



N the morning of the 22d, say* 

 Mr. Gumming, I rode into 

 ;/ camp, after unsuccessfully fol- 

 lowing the spoor of a herd of 

 elephants for two days in a westerly course. 

 \ Having partaken of some refreshment, I 

 saddled up two steeds and rode down the 

 bank of Ngctwani with the Bushman, tt 

 seek for any game I might find. .After 

 riding about a mile along the river's green 

 bank, I came suddenly upon an old male leopard, lying under the 

 shade of a thorn grove, and panting from the great heat. Although 

 I was within sixty yards of him, he had not heard the horse's 

 tread. I thought he was a lioness, and, dismounting, took a rest 

 m my saddle on the Old Gray, and sent a bullet into him. He 

 sprang to his feet, and ran half way down the river's bank, and 



