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tance. I brought a good bull to his knees with a 

 shot at an enormous distance, which I estimated 

 to be 500 yards; but he was apparently creased 

 only, as he recovered himself and went off with 

 the herd, and was evidently not seriously injured. 

 I had one other difficult shot, which I remember, 

 but this also was unsuccessful. Hyaenas were 

 numerous in this part of the country, but I did not 

 see any of the nobler carnivora. 



I saw very few Thomsonii and Grantii gazelles 

 in this expedition ; and the water-buck and Coke's 

 hartebeest, which I shot, were inferior to those 

 which I shot on the occasion of my first visit to 

 Africa. The illustration at the end of the volume 

 shows the trophies of the expedition. 



From Muhoroni I returned to Nairobi by train, 

 and shortly afterwards went to Mombassa and took 

 ship for England. While I was at Nairobi Mr. 

 Sandiford, the Locomotive Superintendent of the 

 Uganda Railway, whom I had known in former 

 days at Lahore, told me an extraordinary leopard 

 story. His house was in the middle of the town, 

 or, as we should call it in India, the Station, of 

 Nairobi, and a leopard, finding himself benighted 

 in the Station, jumped on to the sill of an open 

 window and entered the house. By great good 

 fortune it passed from the room into which it had 

 first entered into a disused bedroom, which had 

 a barred window, and there took refuge under the 

 bed. Miss Sandiford missed a tame cat, and went 

 through the house looking for it, and saw the 

 leopard under the bed. With much presence of 

 mind, she quietly closed the door and withdrew 

 and told her father. He was at first incredulous, 



