116 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO Chek 
Next morning a party of starving Wa Kamba 
happened to be passing just as I was about to skin 
the leopard, and asked by means of signs to be 
allowed to do the job for me and then to take the 
meat. I of course assented to this proposal, and in 
a very few minutes the skin had been neatly taken 
off, and the famishing natives began a ravenous 
meal on the raw flesh. 
Wild dogs are also very destructive, and often 
caused great losses among our sheep and goats. 
Many a night have I listened to these animals 
hunting and harrying some poor creature of the 
wilds round my camp; they never relinquish a 
chase, and will attack anything, man or beast, when 
really driven by hunger. I was at Tsavo Station 
one day-—unfortunately without my rifle—when one 
of these dogs came up and stood within about 
thirty yards of me. He was a fine-looking beast, 
bigger than a collie, with jet-black hair and a 
white-tipped bushy tail. I was very sorry that I 
had not brought my rifle, as I badly wanted a 
specimen and never had another chance of obtain- 
ing one. 
