IN AFRICAN FOREST AND JUNGLE 



had just finished a fight with a nkago. Bang went 

 my gun. There were general cries of fright among 

 the mondis and the nkagos, and both sides fled with 

 the greatest precipitation, each troop, however, going 

 in a different direction. 



In the meantime the mondi I had fired at had 

 fallen to the ground with a great crash, dead. It was 

 a very fine big one, covered with long black glossy 

 hair as it was. I thought I would remain hidden and 

 see if the monkeys would come back. 



After about two hours I heard a noise through the 

 branches. I looked up and saw a solitary mondi. 

 He uttered a cry of distress, calling upon his mate 

 that had been killed. 



Spying her dead body lying on the ground, he 

 came to her, and uttered low mutterings of distress as 

 he saw that she was dead. I shouted, and he fled. 

 I carried the dead mondi to our camp, and as it 

 weighed I judged about forty pounds, I was glad 

 when I arrived and laid it on the ground. 



Several days after this, being in the forest but not 

 far away from the camp, I saw a leopard running 

 quickly in front of me with one of her cubs in her 

 mouth. I wondered at this, for it was so unusual 

 to see a leopard out of her lair in the daytime. She 

 was evidently taking her cubs away for some reason. 



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