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ON SAFARI 



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Tlievc are interesting cats in East Africa besides 

 lions, leopards, and cheetahs. Whilst in the Rift 

 Valley we had opportunities of seeing the Serval Cat. 

 It is a pretty l.)nt untamable animal and very destruc- 

 tive to poultry. A settler hearing a noise in his fowl- 

 house one evening sent a lad to see that the birds 

 were safe and not disturbed l)y cats. The boy returned 

 to say that he had made them safe by shutting and 



'riie Serval Cat. 

 Pretty but fierce ami untamable, and \-ery destructive to poultrj'. 



fastening the door of the fowlhouse. In the morning 

 twenty out of twenty-three birds lay dead and a Serval 

 Cat sat on the cross beam. The boy had shut the animal 

 in with the birds. 



The kittens of the Serval Cat are ferocious little 

 brutes ; they scratch and bite vehemently. We saw 

 a native in charge of one at Njoro, and the skin of his 

 belly was freely cross-hatched by the claws of the pretty 



