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rifle, suspecting a miss. At last I got it out and 

 reloaded, and the rest of the night passed without 

 incident. Next morning I found that the 2-oz. 

 bullet had done its work, and the leopard was lying 

 dead 20 yards off. The bullet had passed through 

 the right shoulder, breaking it, raking the body, and 

 passing out through the side of the stomach. A small 

 male, 91 Ib. in weight and measuring 6 feet 5 inches. 

 Captain H. turned up in morning. Spent remainder 

 of day in curing leopard-skin. Bagged one guinea- 

 fowl with three shots. Was disgusted to find that 

 red ants had eaten a good 6 inches square of hair off 

 the neck of the first leopard ; the moral being not to 

 leave skins pegged out over one night. 



November 2,1th. Spent the night in bed, and the 

 morning in a fruitless search for Heuglin, only getting 

 one long chance. Bagged one guinea-fowl with three 

 shots. Did some carpentering jobs. In the afternoon 

 went down to the river to fish, giving orders to Abdur 

 Eahman to bring my bedding in plenty of time to put 

 it in the leopard-hole. The distance being 600 yards, 

 of course A. R. did not turn up till dark. Meanwhile, 

 I caught a barbel of 10 or 12 Ib., and bagged three 

 guinea-fowl. On returning to camp in pitch darkness, 

 I found only two out of my eight goats, and the 

 goat-boy non est. A search of an hour with the lantern 

 was ineffectual. In this country it is certain death 

 for a domestic animal to stray by night, so that I 



