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skin, not yet dry, that had come off a large male killed 

 by an officer at Arua, and was told that this spotted 

 cat had attacked several native children. While the 

 leopard is bad enough, he cannot compare with a lion 

 that has tm*ned man eater. Where game is plentiful 

 there are very few cases of man-eating lions, but in a 

 country like this where some districts are almost 

 empty of game, they occasionally appear. 



In a native village less than five miles from our camp, 

 a lion had recently been killed after terrorizing the 

 villagers for many months. This old lion started its 

 career by killing a woman near the spring when she 

 went for water. Having once tasted human flesh, it 

 demanded more and laid in wait near the spring until 

 another woman had been added to the list. The 

 natives now avoided this place, but the man-eater was 

 cunning and stalked the women as they worked in 

 the sweet potato patches or in the maize fields, until 

 it had killed and eaten eleven women. The men at 

 last went to the white man for help. A trader came 

 out from the post and managed to shoot the brute, but 

 it will be a long time before the people of that village 

 forget this terror of both daylight and dark. 



Early in the morning we again went in search of the 

 white rhinoceros, and this time were successful beyond 

 all expectations. An hour's walk brought us to a place 

 where some of the animals had wallowed that night; 

 so, taking their spoor, we tracked them over hill and 

 dale until I had just about reached the melting point. 

 It was impossible to make out how many rliinoceroses 

 were ahead of us, for the tracks would branch off and 

 then join again, then all would walk ahnost in the 

 same footprints. In far less mileage than we had cov- 



