THE BLACK LEOPARD. 
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appearing, having sent the guns and people on ahead, I took 
the road to the coffee plantations, and was just going round 
to the ibex rocks, when happening to look back I saw some- 
thing black on the rock on the low hills behind me ; on look- 
ing with my glass to my delight I saw it was a black leopard. 
He was capitally situated for stalkijig owing to there being 
some higher rocks behind him, but I was doubtful as to the 
T/IE BLACiC LEOPARD. 
" He was tiff/ mijre tkaft Jifif yards and iyt'ftg doum" 
wind, and as I was working round, to my great disappoint- 
ment I saw him move off the rock ; hastening up I found that 
he had only moved a little more to the left and was still on 
the same rock. He was not more than fifty yards from me, 
and was lying down ; all I could see of him was his head, 
neck, and back ; he was looking away from me. I felt rather 
unsteady in my aim, so took a long time about it, and when I 
did fire, had the pleasure of seeing him fall on his side bent up 
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