28 
A LEOPARD ABROAD. 
zanees are bad people, and all their women courte- 
zans," says my chaouch. 
There is a large leopard reported to be abroad 
near the oasis of Mizdah. He escaped from i^bd- 
el-Galeel, who brought him from Soudan, and creates 
great terror among the camel-drivers. They say, 
with unspeakable horror, "The nimr eats all the 
weak camels !" He has already devoured two. He 
drinks in the neighbouring wady, where there is 
water six months of the year. During the re- 
mainder he is capable, they say, of doing without 
drinking. 
