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men were lying. Soon after nightfall the hyenas assembled 

 in numbers and attacked, killed, and ate the mortally 

 wounded lion, the noise made by the combatants being 

 ear-rending. On another occasion he had heard a leopard 

 attack some baboons in the rocks, a tremendous row fol- 

 lowing as the big dog 

 baboons hastened to 

 the assistance of the 

 one who had been 

 seized and drove off the 

 leopard. That evening 

 a leopard, evidently the 

 same one, very thin and 

 hungry, came into camp 

 and was shot ; it was 

 frightfully bitten, the 

 injuries being such as 

 only baboons inflict, 

 and would unquestion- 

 ably have died of its 

 wounds. The leopard 

 wherever possible takes 

 his kill up a tree, 

 showing extraordinary 

 strength in the perform- 

 ance of this feat. It is 

 undoubtedly due to fear 

 of interference from 

 hyenas. The 'Ndorobo 

 said that no single 

 hyena would meddle 



with a leopard, but that three or four would without 

 hesitation rob it of its prey. Some years before this 

 time, while hunting north of Kenia, Lord Delamere had 

 met a Dr. Kolb, who was killed by a rhino immediately 

 afterward. Dr. Kolb was fond of rhinoceros liver, and 

 killed scores of the animals for food: but finally a cow, 



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The spears that did the trick 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



