WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



nights in a " hide-up " built in a tree close to a 

 water-hole. The brute, however, sprang at my camera 

 after I fired the flash-lamp, and carried off a leather 

 legging which, thinking it was going to rain, I had 

 placed over it. The legging was afterwards found by 

 one of my boys some forty yards away with a large 

 piece bitten out of it 



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