GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



leopard — he was just tall enough to do so ; but by 

 now the leopard was upset, and it sprang with a 

 mighty roar at the window, which, however, did not 

 give way. My husband then took a hammer to 

 break a little hole in the window. Again the leopard 

 sprang, we saw everybody scatter, my husband had 

 to spring aside to avoid having the broken glass in 

 his face. He could not hold his rifle and break 

 the window at the same time, for no one offered to 

 do the breaking — all the on-lookers removed to a 

 safe distance, and we women were made to stay 

 in the drawing-room. Happily for my husband, a 

 rusty bar across the window held. We afterwards 

 found the leopard had nearly cut off one of his 

 claws with the broken glass. After picking up his 

 rifle, my husband moved to the hole in the window 

 aga in; the leopard had retired under the bed and 

 was furiously lashing hisUail, waiting for another 

 spring. Just as the beast was going to do this a 

 third time, he planted a bullet fairly in the middle 

 of its forehead and it fell dead. All my husband 

 could see as he shot were two green eyes, gleaming 

 from out of the darkness under the bed ; it was a dif- 

 ficult shot, as the window was rather too high to en- 

 able him to take easy aim. The gentleman insisted 

 on sending the beast up to our house, for us to 

 have the skin, and I promised to try and find the 

 cat, during a post-mortem examination of its body. 



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