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The wild dog. Jackal. 



The spotted hyaena. Pythons and other snakes. 



The striped hysena. Baboon. 



The crocodile. Collobus monkeys. 



The serval. Marabout storks. 



Wild cats of various kinds. Blue and other monkeys. 



There is nothing laid down ; and what is or is not a 

 game animal is a matter for individual taste. 



It is by no means certain that all the larger mammals 

 of the Protectorate have yet been identified. Indeed, 

 the probability is rather the other way. If such animals 

 remain for discovery, their habitat is almost certainly 

 the greater forests. Some years ago the writer was 

 convinced in his own mind that he saw at close 

 quarters, about sunset in forest, a very large pig with a 

 perfectly white mane. The story was received with 

 much incredulity, ridicule, and hints of bibulous visions, 

 but the existence of such an animal has since received 

 corroboration. 



Natives report the existence in the great Mau forest, 

 not only of a huge ape, but of what is apparently a 

 bear ! Moreover, they are confident of the presence of 

 a very fearsome beast, to wit the gu-gu. This animal 

 is of huge size, very fierce, and apparently of the 

 monkey tribe. All accounts are agreed that he has 

 but one eye and a huge spike at the end of one arm. 

 The following story will prove that this animal is not 

 without European confirmation. 



A certain settler lived with his wife on rather an 

 out-of-the-way farm on the edge of a huge forest. 

 Business forced him to absent himself, leaving his wife 

 alone to manage the farm. The poor woman had not 

 been left alone a week when the head boy came in and 



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