33 2 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



camp, then hearing that Dr. Baxter was not at Shimba 

 they carried me to Simba (not Shimba), a place on the 

 arm of the sea, put me into an Arab dhow and took 

 me into Mombasa, where under proper treatment I 

 soon recovered. 



On another occasion I had wandered barely ten 

 miles beyond Makupa, when I came upon four 

 leopards watching a herd of hartebeestos. It was 

 a pretty sight to contemplate, but before I could 

 fire the wild cats bounded off one way whilst 

 the antelopes now thoroughly aroused went off 

 another. 



