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The wild dog. 
The spotted hyaena. 
The striped hyaena. 
The crocodile. 
The serval. 
Jackal. 
Pythons and other snakes. 
Baboon. 
Collobus monkeys. 
Marabout storks. 
Wild cats of various kinds. Blue and other monkeys. 
There is nothing laid down ; and what is or is not a 
game animal is a matter for individual taste. 
It is by no means certain that all the larger mammals 
of the Protectorate have yet been identified. Indeed, 
the probability is rather the other way. If such animals 
remain for discovery, their habitat is almost certainly 
the greater forests. Some years ago the writer was 
convinced in his own mind that he saw at close 
quarters, about sunset in forest, a very large pig with a 
perfectly white mane. The story was received with 
much incredulity, ridicule, and hints of bibulous visions, 
but the existence of such an animal has since received 
corroboration. 
Natives report the existence in the great Mau forest, 
not only of a huge ape, but of what is apparently a 
bear ! Moreover, they are confident of the presence of 
a very fearsome beast, to wit the gu-gu. This animal 
is of huge size, very fierce, and apparently of the 
monkey tribe. All accounts are agreed that he has 
but one eye and a huge spike at the end of one arm. 
The following story will prove that this animal is not 
without European confirmation. 
A certain settler lived with his wife on rather an 
out-of-the-way farm on the edge of a huge forest. 
Business forced him to absent himself, leaving his wife 
alone to manage the farm. The poor woman had not 
been left alone a week when the head boy came in and 
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