With Flashlight ^nd Rifle * 



Once when I was after some dwarf antelopes (Madoqiia 

 kirki] a small lynx came close to me, evidently intent on 

 the same quarry. This gave me an excellent opportunity 

 of observing its habits, and I was able to kill it as a 

 valuable addition to my collection. 



Another lynx came quite close to me when I 

 was after some ostriches, and gave me an opportunity 

 of bringing oft" rather a remarkable double shot. The: 

 ostriches sixty-four of them had been near my camp 

 for some days, but as they were moulting I had left 

 them alone. However, I decided to shoot one of them 

 for the collection of the Royal Museum at Berlin. It 

 was not easy to get near it, but at last I brought it 

 down at a distance of about two hundred paces. Then 

 it was that the lynx came in sight, and with my second 

 bullet I bagged it. 



The desert lynx is not to be met with so often in 

 East Africa, 1 think, as in the north and south. The: 

 genets remain in hiding by daylight, anel are often caught 

 in traps. I once killeel one which had sought refuge 

 under the gable of a roof at Moshi. 



Generally speaking, the sportsman seldom comes across 

 these smaller beasts of prey such as gene:ts, honey- 

 baelgers, ichneumons, e:tc. in the davtime. I mvself came- 



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upon an otter only once, though I found that the: natives 

 living by Lake Victoria possessed skins of them. 



So it is at home. I remember that I very seldom 

 saw these animals in daylight, anel then only for a moment, 

 when in my boyhood I followed their tracks ejver the 

 Eifel Mountains on my father's estate:. 



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