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uncertain times always lay under my pillow, and fired off 

 a couple of shots to scare the intruder. Getting a light, 

 I was relieved to find it was only the pony." This animal 

 did not return to its " kill," and Captain Forsyth's watch 

 was in vain. 



There are certain writers, William H. Drummond, and 

 Sir William Cornwallis Harris, for example, from whose 

 works it might be inferred that in East Africa panthers 

 and leopards were of a quite different character from 

 their Asiatic allies. Taking the evidence on record with 

 regard to this continent as a whole, the discrepancy 

 disappears, however, and Felis pardus there, appears in 

 much the same aspect as elsewhere. The animals are 

 necessarily modified to some extent by differences implied 

 in a change of province, but in the main they are reported 

 by observers as exhibiting like traits, and performing 

 much the same exploits with those that have been given. 



