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ON SAFARI 



There are interesting cats in East Africa besides 

 lions, leopards, and cheetahs. Whilst in the Rift 

 A 'alley we had opportunities of seeing the Serval Cat. 

 It is a pretty but untamable animal and very destruc- 

 tive to poultry. A settler hearing a noise in his fowl- 

 house one evening sent a lad to see that the birds 

 were safe and not disturbed by cats. The boy returned 

 to say that he had made them safe by shutting and 





The Serval Cat. 

 Pretty but fierce and untamable, and very destructive to poultry. 



fastening the door of the fowlhouse. In the morning 

 twenty out of twenty-three birds lay dead and a Serval 

 Cat sat on the cross beam. The boy had shut the animal 

 in with the birds. 



The kittens of the Serval Cat are ferocious little 

 brutes ; they scratch arid bite vehemently. We saw 

 a native in charge of one at Njoro, and the skin of his 

 belly was freely cross-hatched by the claws of the pretty 



