302 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



several people, for lie was in a desperately frenzied 

 state. I then went back into the inner enclosure ; in 

 it we found a bear cub, and of all the beasts least- 

 expected two porcupines. These are repulsive 

 animals to look at, but very clean feeders, and if 

 properly cooked are not to be despised as an article 

 of diet. It was fully twelve before this beat was 

 over, after which we had two more essays, but with 

 the exception of deer we got nothing. Very often 

 when a tiger is surrounded, word is sent to the petty 

 rajahs, for whom tall machans are built ; into these 

 they climb, the victim's death often being delayed 

 for a day or two. Though a tiger could spring over 

 the nets easily, he never attempts to do so. In my 

 own tea-garden I entrapped two leopards and again 

 a tigress by means of nets, and killed them without 

 difficulty. The sport looks supremely dangerous, 

 but in reality it is not so. 



A REMINISCENCE OF EAST AFRICA. 



Thanks to the courtesy of an Arab proprietor, whose 

 acquaintance I had made in Mombasa, I obtained 

 a number of his slaves to accompany me on a fifteen 

 days' trip into the interior. 



Crossing over from the island, I pitched my camp 

 about a mile inland. I had tinned provisions with 

 me, but wishing to economise them as far as possible, 

 I took my gun, and having about two hours' daylight 

 took a stroll to the southward. There are small 

 villages about, but very little cultivation ; still there is 

 some, and a little grain I found standing. Traversing 

 the dry bed of a watercourse, I followed a native path 



