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They are said to run in small packs of ten or a 

 dozen, and to cause much loss of life among the 

 lesser antelopes. 



Three Ichneumons and a small black and white 

 Pole-cat are found, and, in the rivers, two distinct 

 Otters. 



In dealing with the Monkeys, we are at once 

 struck by the curious fact that neither of the great 

 anthropoid apes, the Chimpanzee or the Gorilla 

 common to Ethiopian Africa, the black and white 

 Colobus (C palliatus), nor, so far as I am aware, 

 more than two or three Cercopithecus monkeys are 

 found in Zambezia, whose varieties only include the 

 Yellow Baboon {Papio babuin), the grey variety dis- 

 covered by Dr. Percy Rendall in Nyasaland some 

 years ago (or something so like it that I cannot 

 detect the difference), and two or three grivets. 



The two baboons I have mentioned are every- 

 where, and are a source of considerable loss and not 

 a little alarm to the natives, whose gardens they 

 rob, and whose women and children they frighten. 

 In out-of-the-way portions of the country where 

 Europeans are few, they will, when numerous, 

 scarcely take the trouble to get out of the way in 

 the case of an individual not furnished with fire- 

 arms, of whose uses they appear to be perfectly 

 aware. Cases of attack by baboons are by no 

 means unknown. Native women regard them 

 with terror, and state that the baboons have been 

 known to outrage them. I have heard this state- 

 ment in so many different parts of Africa, that it is 

 hard to believe there may not be some foundation 

 for it, and when you come to consider that this 



