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It would have been inhospitable to offer any of the 
curry, so we begged them to sample the tinned beef. 
Our butler waited on us, and drenched the four of us 
in a successful attempt to open a champagne bottle. 
Oh yes, we gave them champagne, to make up for 
other deficiencies. I told them if they would wait for 
dinner they should have a Carlton-like meal. After 
lunch they would see our skins and heads, so we 
excavated the skulls, and displayed all we had for 
admiration. We tried not to feel superior, but it was 
rather difficult when we heard they had not as yet got 
a shot even at a rhino. I lay low about the price we 
paid for ours ! We evidently went up a little in their 
estimation, because they invited us to take part in a 
big shoot next day, and seemed really anxious we 
should accept. We said we were about to trek in an 
opposite direction, but I was rather taken aback when 
the elder warrior asked me how I knew which direction 
the proposed shoot was to take ? They invited us to 
go over and see their trophies, but we did not mean to 
give them one single chance to crow, and instantly on 
their departure struck camp and moved on towards a 
large Somali encampment which had recently suffered 
many grievous losses from the depredations of 
leopards. 
We were anxious to see the spoor for ourselves. A 
great many of the leopards reported are nothing in the 
wide world but hysena, in spite of the fact that the 
leopard, being a cat, does not, in quiescence, show 
his claws in the pug marks, and the hysena, being a 
dog, does ; besides, the shape of the pad is entirely 
