With Flashlight and Rifle 



Among the other small animals ot prey in East Africa 

 we find some beautiful wild cats and lynxes. Among 

 the cat tribe the serval (Fe/is serial} is much more 

 common than the leopard. It is a long-limbed kind of 

 cat, with black spots on a yellow ground, which frequents 

 the bushes. The serval is an animal of nocturnal habits. 

 1 often managed to secure specimens in traps, but 



HUXDRKDS OF VUI.TTRKS AND SOMK MARAIJOUS AND JACKALS 



only occasionally did I happen upon one by day. It 

 was long before I succeeded in catching a perfectly 

 black specimen. 



On the occasions of my numerous elephant-hunts to 

 the west of Kilimanjaro 1 came upon a very shy 

 black cat at a certain spot continually. It was at a point 

 on the high velt at a height of about 7,000 feet. 

 While waiting for the elephants to make their appearance 



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