y ne He : fei ok 
: art : Lt Le 
HAMLYN’S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
‘> 
are rather expensive luxuries, and thus a very 
close guard is kept on the young birds by day, 
their safety being guaranteed by night, a period 
when the baboon will not even rob an orchard, 
for he, like some of his younger cousins, is ter- 
ribly afraid of the dark and incidentally his arch- 
 enmy, the leopard. 
- At Vergelegen recently a farmer reported 
the passing through of a troop of 300 baboons. 
A small lucerne patch, a fodder they do not 
touch in normal times, was simply devoured whole 
sale and the crops ruined, but they were chivvied 
by farmer and dogs, and made off into some 
rugged redhills and krantzes, whither the dogs 
followed. Here it was that one of Mr. Delport’s 
pack of splendid baboon dogs met a peculiar fate. 
There was a big male, who was in the rear of 
the troop, who was acting as a defender of the 
weaker ones, and he took up his stand on the 
edge of the krantz, as the best dog of the pack, 
rounding him off, went in to give battle. It 
lasted less than a fraction of a second, as the 
powerfully built hound ran into him he leaped 
aside, gripped the dog about its middle and hurled 
it over the krantz. The hound fell some 50 or 60 
feet, but the plucky animal lived throughout the 
whole of the day and only succumbed the next 
from, as the post-mortem examination revealed, 
internal injuries. Game dogs from the town, 
which set off after a troop of baboons in this 
vicinity, are never seen again, and quite recently 
a local bushman enthusiast saw the last of a fine 
specimen of Airedale as the dog disappeared over 
a hillock in pursuit of a troop of baboons. 
A Yellow Golybosh. 
! REPRINTED 
. FROM “THE NEW YORK TIMES.” 
Bi Captain Sylvester Ruddles, formerly of the 
Formosa Fencibles, and who now describes him- 
self as a Christian Scientist and a dealer in ivory 
nuts, arrived yesterday from Africa, accompanied 
by his native servant, Dingbad, bringing what he 
avers to be the only specimen of the striped yel- 
_ low golybosh of the Umdingo forests on the up- 
_ per Congo in captivity. The animal is said by its 
owner to be the biggest and fiercest specimen of 
the wlidcat tribe in Africa, 
_ The Captain, who was lunching yesterday at 
the Ritz Calrton with his friend, Marmaduke M. 
_Mizzle, the well-known Mincing Lane caraway 
seed merchant, appeared reluctant to talk about 
_ his pet, because, he said, to those who had not 
explored the great forests of the. 
description of a real yellow-striped 
look somewhat exaggerated. 
“This cat is so wild,”’ said Ga; 
times the offspring eat up their paren 
ful velocity trying to eat itself up and somet 
succeeds. That is why the golybosh is so 
In fact, it is almost extinct through these a 
I have mentioned. : 
‘“Rararuzza, the name of the one I ha 
brought with me, which means in the U 
language, ‘Yellow fiend of the black forests, 
given to me by King Umlabo for saving th 
of his only daughter, Uloba, from a rogus 
phant who was chasing her round the sacred 
bab trees one day when she was out collec 
some grasshoppers to make a salad for King U 
labo’s tiffin. = 4 
THE SALTED GRASSHOPPERS. ES 
“The grasshoppers in the Umdingo land, | 
might mention are much larger than any ¢ 
insects of their kind that I have ever se 
tropical countries. The natives dry them in 
sun and throw salt on them and they are | 
all bad.” : 
Mr. Mizzle corroborated his friend’s s 
ment at this point, but added that he p 
the salted grasshoppers he had eaten at Sidi 
in the Sahara Desert which, in his opinior 
more gamey flavour than those of the Umdin 
country. ne 
“It was a pure fluke,” the captain contin 
“that I managed to hit the wild pachyderm in t 
right eye with my express rifle, because he wa: 
tearing up the baobabs with his powerful tru 
and knocking down everything else that cam 
his way. Four big lions had fust been takin: 
afternoon prowl around the outskirts of 
lage, and I was lying doggo, as we call 
my couch quaffing a cup of tea. I had 
any lions and did not wish to take the 
the hot sun to interfere with their promenade 1 
I heard the Princess screaming at the top 
voice, in the Umdingo tongue, for help. 
parently the lions had faded to the fore: 
they say the rogue elephant coming witl 
in his eye. 
“The dear, fat, old King Umlabo 
grateful that he offered to give me his da 
Uloba and making me the heir-app. 
throne of Umdingo. ; eis 
iis. re : 
ae 
