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account. The leopard, when taken young, is very easily tamed. 
A friend of ours has kept two for several years: they are very 
docile, and will allow the ladies of the family to enter their cages 
to caress and feed them. They will not, however, permit a stranger 
to come anywhere near. Last year the female gave birth to two 
cubs, one of which was devoured by the male, but the other is still 
living and thriving well. The owner gives the full-grown animals 
a fowl or a small piece of meat daily, and as much porridge as they 
like to eat. Speaking of tame leopards reminds us that our father 
when in India kept two chetahs (Gueparda jubata), which were so 
tame that they followed him about like dogs, and he was sorry 
afterwards to have to part with them, owing to complaints made by 
visitors. 
Every pair of leopards seem to have their own tract of hunting 
ground, in which they will allow none of their own species to 
trespass. They even drive off their own young, after they have 
attained a certain age, to seek for new preserves for themselves. 
There are still a pair of these animals inhabiting an extensive bush 
in our place on the river Ifafa, and we often hear them roaring in 
the night. Sometimes they approach very near the house. One 
night, shortly after settling here, we were awakened by the loud 
neighing of a horse that was prancing around the house, and 
the next morning were astonished to find that he had been 
chased by a leopard, the foot-prints of which were plainly 
marked. Shortly after this we shot a fine half-grown specimen; 
it was discovered by our dogs, from which it defended itself 
bravely, growling and spitting at them like a cat: we stuffed 
and mounted it. 
The natives use the skin of the leopard to scare off the monkeys 
from their plots of “ mealies,” as the Indian corn is called here. 
The leopard is easily destroyed by poison: a small quantity of . 
strychnine, about two grains, is inserted in a dead fowl or buck 
and placed near their haunts. The skin of a poisoned animal is 
said to be of no use: if this is the case, it would be a drawback 
to this way of killing them, as their skins are of considerable 
value. 
It is the great ambition of the hunting Kafirs to kill a leopard, 
and the man who is lucky enough to do so makes a necklace of 
the claws and teeth, which he wears with great pride as a proof of 
his prowess; he also invites his friends to taste the heart, the 
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