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long before two males—the same, I had no doubt, which we 
had noticed before—came and squatted themselves one on 
each side of the little creek. . . . Crack went my rifle. 
But instead of either of them dropping, the two Baboons 
started up; by a mutual instinct they both clutched their 
noses, gave a ringing bark and scampered off. The whole herd 
took the alarm, and joining in the shrieking clamour were 
soon lost to sight.” 
On another occasion Dr. Holub and his servant had a rencontre 
witha herd of Baboons. He writes:—‘ We caught sight of them 
in one of the glens. They were on the further side, and being 
anxious to obtain a specimen of their skulls, I fired and killed 
one Baboon; but unfortunately for me, the creature fell into 
the river. At my second shot I.wounded two more. This 
induced the right wing of the herd to retreat; but the main 
body kept their ground, and the left flank, moreover, assumed 
the aggressive, and commenced pelting us so vigorously with 
stones, that, remembering that I had only one cartridge, I 
considered it far more prudent to withdraw than to run the 
risk of a hand-to-hand encounter.” On a still further occasion 
the same well-known traveller says: “I was turning to leave 
the ravine when some stones came pattering down the rocks 
in my direction. I soon became aware that the stones were 
being designedly aimed at me; and, looking up, I saw a herd 
of Baboons.” 
“The Nyanyi or Cynocephalus,” writes Sir Richard Burton 
in his “ Lake Regions of Central Africa,” ‘ 
of Usukuma attains the size of a Greyhound, and, according 
to the natives, there are three varieties of colour—red, black 
in the jungles 
and yellow. They are the terror of the neighbouring districts ; 
women never dare to approach their haunts; they set the 
