LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



A Blue or Brindled Gnu 78 



Selous's Zebra . . .80 



A Brace of Leopards 82 



Niaw 84 



Kafir Salutations 86 



A Trapped Porcupine 88 



The Common Moniter (" Iguana ") 90 



One of the Leopards killed on Mr. Puech's Estate . . . .92 



On the Banks of the Mvezi 94 



My Two Best Leopards 96 



A Leopard Trap 98 



A Civet and the Crocodile, the Pest of African Rivers . . . .100 



A Female Leopard 102 



My Wife Seated on the Dead Elephant 104 



Bringing in the Leopard ......... 106 



My First Lioness 108 



Large Basket used by the Kafirs as a Granary . . . . .110 



A Troop of Zebras 112 



A Lioness . . . . • • • . . • .114 



A Maneless Lion 116 



Negros Skinning a Lioness . . . . . . . .118 



A Tsessebe 120 



Native Barriers along a Water-course 122 



Three Lions : Two Males and a Female 124 



The Big Bag of Lions 126 



My Biggest Lioness 128 



An Ill-Tempered Solitary and a Black-Maned Lion . . . .130 



Male Pala and Female Pala 132 



A Baobab Tree 134 



Trophy of SkuUs 136 



Elephant Tusks en route to Zanzibar . . . . . .138 



Hippopotamus on the River Inhamboue and Head of Kudu . .140 



Kafir with Paraquet 142 



Pelican, Spoonbill, Stork, etc 144 



A Jami Buffalo Calf and Domesticated Cattle of Zambezia . . .146 



Yellow-Maned Lion 148 



lies de Childone 150 



My Last Lion but one on the Tendo . . . . . . .152 



Native with a Carunculated Duck 154 



Whistling Teal, Black Geese, and Egrets 156 



The South African Bustard 158 



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