FISHING IN LAKE RUDOLF 
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JACKALS ATTACKING NATIVES 
By C. M. Dobbs 
In June this year, while standing in the grounds round my 
house at Kericho, one afternoon about 5 p.m., I was surprised 
to see two jackals come right through the garden. One of 
them passed me about ten yards away, and the other a little 
farther. I subsequently mentioned this fact to some natives, 
and was told that they had recently become very bold and 
had attacked several people in broad daylight. One man had 
met a jackal on the road, and it refused to budge ; he threw 
his stick at it, whereupon the jackal promptly attacked him, 
and he had some difficulty in driving it away. On another 
occasion, a native woman, while working in her shamba, was 
attacked by one of these animals, and, after a hard tussle, 
succeeded in throwing round it one of the skins that she was 
wearing, strangling it in this way. 
Note. — Similar incidents to the above occurred in Kiambu 
district some years ago. The natives reported several cases of 
attacks by jackals, and, on one occasion, a jackal came up to 
the kitchen of the police-officer’s house and bit a native in 
broad daylight. The explanation prevalent at that time 
was that the jackals were suffering from an epidemic of rabies ; 
I am, however, not aware that this theory was ever proved. — 
Editor. 
FISHING IN LAKE RUDOLF 
Note by A. Blayney Percival 
The Nile perch, or baggera, depicted in the plate in this 
number (weight 47 lb.), was killed in Lake Rudolf on a light 
rod and tackle, after two hours’ fight, by an officer of the K.A.R. 
A number of these fish were killed, weighing between 15 and 
30 lb. ; a dead fish of very much larger size was seen. Other 
fish taken were tiger-fish up to 10 lb., and two species of 
Silurians (scaleless barbel). Small fish of many species were 
very plentiful. 
