CHAPTER V 



WE BUILD A LEOPARD TRAP — A NIGHT ON THE 

 WATCH — THE BEAST APPEARS AT LAST — CAUGHT 

 IN THE TRAP AND SOON DESPATCHED — HER MATE 

 KILLED THE FOLLOWING NIGHT — EXCITEMENT OF 

 ANDEKKO AND NDOVA 



EARLY the next morning the men went into the 

 forest to cut poles, and after we had a sufficient 

 number we built a trap to catch the leopard. 



We constructed the trap in the following manner 

 according to the plan of Shinshooko, who had the 

 reputation of great skill and ingenuity in making all 

 sorts of traps. 



We built with the poles a long narrow funnel-like 

 alley, which became gradually smaller and smaller 

 towards the end, so that it was impossible for the 

 leopard to go entirely through. At the entrance 

 Shinshooko constructed a trap-door which was to 

 fall after the leopard was fairly in. The end of this 

 funnel-like structure communicated with the goat- 

 house, which we surrounded with a double row of 

 poles, so that the leopard could not get through. 

 The roof was made entirely of poles strongly fastened 

 together. The structure was about twenty feet long. 



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