n6 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CH. x 



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- 



