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THE BLACK LEOPARD. 



animal and prefer it to all other food. It will sit and watch 

 on a crag above its prey (knowing well that the ibex never 

 looks up), until the opportunity comes for the fatal spring. 

 But a young calf sambur or even a full-grown deer does not 

 come amiss to them. I once killed a sambur from the 



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/'/' WILL SIT. AND WATCH ON A CRAG. 



shoulders of which a leopard had only a few minutes before 

 torn a mass of flesh. 



I was fortunate once in slaying a very fine black leopard. 

 On the 1 6th May, 1857, I left the hut just as dawn was 



