WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



Although these animals are found in abundance, they 

 are seldom met with by hunters, as they are cunning 

 and sneaky. According to my diary, I encountered and 

 hunted the dangerous cat only twelve times, but the 

 meetings were as exciting as any I had with the wild 

 beasts of the wilderness. This number does not in- 

 clude the leopards which I caught in traps. 



One of the most blood - stirring adventures I had 

 with a leopard was near Pangani, when I set out on my 

 journey into the interior in 1899. I had gone back to 

 town, accompanied by but one man, in order to engage 

 more carriers. Returning towards evening to my camp, 

 my attention was drawn to a tree on which a crowd of 

 baboons were shrieking with all their might. Since 

 monkeys are preyed on by the leopard, I concluded 

 that the baboons were directing their wrath against one 

 of the stealthy cats in a near-by thicket. I penetrated 

 a few feet into the jungle, when something ahead of me 

 began to move, while the monkeys followed it in the 

 tops of the trees. The thicket grew less dense, and I 

 soon found myself on the edge of a ravine, when I saw, 

 about ninety feet away, a strong leopard dragging along 

 a half -grown baboon. I raised my rifle, but before I 

 could fire the beast had dropped the monkey and 

 escaped with a mighty leap into the ravine. I was 

 sorry to be forced to desist from pursuing it, but I had 

 to return to my camp. 



I chanced several times to come upon the haunts of 



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