SMALL GAME 83 



mistook him for a baboon and shot him dead. If a 

 native can make such a mistake, how much more 

 careful ought a European to be ! 



Baboons are artful and destructive animals. In 

 the native lands where the crops are ripening they 

 do an extraordinary amount of damage and keep 

 the whole village fully employed chasing them away. 

 If the villagers are only armed with spears, sticks, and 

 stones, they are very cheeky, just galloping round out 

 of range and dodging into another part of the crop. 

 But if the hunter appears with a gun they seem to 

 know instinctively that it is quite a different matter, 

 and at a warning bark from the sentinel the whole 

 pack disappear. 



If thoroughly alarmed, the pack go off barking and 

 screeching as hard as they can for cover, the younger 

 members always being the last ; and scared at being 

 left behind and with unknown danger following, they 

 lose both wind and almost power to run at all, and 

 frequently fall victims to the dogs that are let loose 

 on them. 



As a rule they are artful enough not to allow their 

 natural enemy completely out of their sight, and 

 though he may be stalking them, he thinking they 

 have not seen or heard him, all the time one or 

 two old chaps are keeping him in sight and giving 

 occasional barks to warn the others that there is 

 danger. 



This habit of stalking the stalker, so to speak, has 



