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long before two males the same, I had no doubt, which we 

 had noticed before came and squatted themselves one on 

 each side of the little creek. . . . Crack went my rifle. 

 But instead of either of them dropping, the two Baboons 

 started up ; by a mutual instinct they both clutched their 

 noses, gave a ringing bark and scampered off. The whole herd 

 took the alarm, and joining in the shrieking clamour were 

 soon lost to sight." 



On another occasion Dr. Holub and his servant had a rencontre 

 with a herd of Baboons. He writes : " We caught sight of them 

 in one of the glens. They were on the further side, and being 

 anxious to obtain a specimen of their skulls, I fired and killed 

 one Baboon ; but unfortunately for me, the creature fell into 

 the river. At my second shot I wounded two more. This 

 induced the right wing of the herd to retreat ; but the main 

 body kept their ground, and the left flank, moreover, assumed 

 the aggressive, and commenced pelting us so vigorously with 

 stones, that, remembering that I had only one cartridge, I 

 considered it far more prudent to withdraw than to run the 

 risk of a hand-to-hand encounter." On a still further occasion 

 the same well-known traveller says : " I was turning to leave 

 the ravine when some stones came pattering down the rocks 

 in my direction. I soon became aware that the stones were 

 being designedly aimed at me ; and, looking tip, I saw a herd 

 of Baboons." 



" The Nyanyi or Cynocephalus," writes Sir Richard Burton 

 in his "Lake Regions of Central Africa," "in the jungles 

 of Usukuma attains the size of a Greyhound, and, according 

 to the natives, there are three varieties of colour red, black 

 and yellow. They are the terror of the neighbouring districts ; 

 women never dare to approach their haunts; they set the 



