CHAPTER XII. 



KARROO BEASTS, BIRDS AND REPTILES. 



Leopard drowned in a well Baboons Egyptian sacred animals on Cape 

 farms "Adonis" A humiliating retreat A baby baboon 

 Clever tricks performed by baboons Adonis as a Voor looker A 

 four-handed pointsman Sarah A baboon at the Diamond Fields 

 Adonis's shower-bath His love of stimulants His revengeful 

 disposition Pelops the dog-headed Horus Aasvogels Goat- 

 sucker The butcher-bird's larder Nest of the golden oriole 

 The kapok bird Snakes in houses A puff-adder under a pillow 

 Puff-adder most dangerous of Cape snakes Cobras Schaap- 

 sticker Ugly house-lizards Dassie-adder The dassie the coney 

 of Scripture Stung by a scorpion Fight between tarantula and 

 centipede Destructive ants The Aardvaark, or ant-bear Igno- 

 minious flight of a sentry Ant-lion Walking-leaves The 

 Hottentot god A mantis at a picnic. 



ALTHOUGH the elephant and lion are now no longer 

 found in the Karroo, there still remain a good number 

 of leopards, or, as the colonists, in calm defiance of 

 natural history, persist in calling them, " tigers." These 

 animals, by the way, seem fated at both ends of the 

 Dark Continent to be the victims of a misnomer, and 

 in Algeria rejoice in the name of panther e. Though 

 the South African leopards are now following the 

 example of the larger and more formidable game, and 

 gradually retreating before the advance of man, it is not 



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