GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



great noise. The following night my husband 

 bounded out of bed, half asleep, and hit something 

 from off the window sill. He thought it was another 

 hyaena, but in reality it was Paka, one of our visitors, 

 a tame wild-cat, who had been locked out from her 

 kittens, and thought she would get in by the only 

 window she found open, — a very high jump from the 

 ground. But, poor dear, to her surprise she was sent 

 flying, and I don't know which was the more sur- 

 prised, my husband or the cat. 



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