no AFRICA SPEAKS 



territory, and unless they were more careful of their 

 actions, he intended to send soldiers to drive them out. 

 While the boy was interpreting this to them, they 

 stood there with exclamations of "Ah ah," "eh eh," 

 "oh oh," then left without further ado. 



We were still working with the Hons, occasionally, 

 and one day while enroute through the "valley of 

 lions," I espied what looked Hke a leopard sitting on 

 its haunches in the shade of a small thorn bush. As I 

 was attracting Mike's attention, it sprang up and 

 started to run, disclosing itself to be a large cheetah. 

 So far we had obtained no film of this animal and 

 taking advantage of this opportunity we raced after 

 it in the truck. A cheetah is the fastest animal on 

 four feet for a few hundred yards, but soon becomes 

 winded, making it easy to run him down, which we did, 

 getting some excellent close-up motion pictures. Then 

 someone suggested we take him to camp for a pet. 

 We had quite an exciting time tying him up and plac- 

 ing him in the truck, then reaUzing that he was too old 

 to become very docile we turned him loose. 



While making our way back to the trail we noticed 

 a ring of vultures grouped around a sHght depression 

 and, upon coming closer, found the ever-present hyena 

 and two jackals robbing an ostrich nest. They had 

 broken most of the eggs and eaten their contents. Om* 

 arrival frightened them away, but there was very httle 

 left for the hen ostrich to mother. She hovered in the 

 vicinity much distressed and was shortly joined by 

 the cock ostrich, who made short charges toward us. 

 After taking a few pictures of the unhappy pair, we 

 left them surveying the ruins of what had been a 

 happy ostrich home. 



