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to him the leopard leaped into the camp amongst 

 the fires and seized another man. When I got to 

 him I found a bad cut in his breast and blood 

 spurting from a wound in the neck ; he was 

 breathing through the breast and part of the lung 

 was visible. With much trouble we got his wounds 

 sewn up by means of an ordinary needle and 

 thread. I spent the rest of the night in a chair, 

 with a rifle across my knee, and though the animal 

 tried twice to get into the camp, we saw it in time. 



These creatures never used to prey on man, 

 according to native report ; but since all the goats 

 and fowls had been driven off by Kabbarega they 

 had become a great nuisance. The natives build 

 high fences of branches and elephant grass and 

 retire within them at 3 p.m. every day. Leopards 

 in this part hunt in perfect silence, never coughing 

 as they do in West Africa. I am glad to say both 

 these men reached the coast safely, in spite of my 

 surgery. 



Coming down the Mubuku valley, I had a 

 magnificent view of eight elephants, who marched 

 past us. When walking about they usually go in 

 single hie, forming a broad, well-trodden path. 

 Usually their tails are stuck out at an angle of 45 

 degrees. One young bull tried to push in front of 

 an older one, who simply turned and looked at 

 him, on which the young one fell back, promptly 

 curling up his trunk, shaking his ears, and looking 

 very vicious. They deploy into line to graze. 



