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breaking his leg, and also mauling his two Somali gun- 
bearers. The lion then crawled off into some bushes fifty 
yards away, and camp was pitched where the wounded 
men were lying. Soon after nightfall the hyenas assembled 
in numbers and attacked, killed, and ate the mortally 
wounded lion, the noise made by the combatants being 
ear-rending. On another occasion he had heard a leopard 
attack some baboons in the rocks, a tremendous row fol¬ 
lowing as the big dog baboons hastened to the assistance 
of the one who had been seized and drove off the leopard. 
That evening a leopard, evidently the same one, very thin 
and hungry, came into camp and was shot; it was fright¬ 
fully bitten, the injuries being such as only baboons in¬ 
flict, and would unquestionably have died of its wounds. 
The leopard wherever possible takes his kill up a tree, 
showing extraordinary strength in the performance of this 
feat. It is undoubtedly due to fear of interference from 
hyenas. The ’Ndorobo said that no single hyena would 
meddle with a leopard, but that three or four would with¬ 
out hesitation rob it of its prey. Some years before this 
time, while hunting north of Kenia Lord Delamere had 
met a Dr. Kolb, who was killed by a rhino immediately 
afterward. Dr. Kolb was fond of rhinoceros liver, and 
killed scores of the animals for food; but finally a cow^ 
with a half-grown calf, which he had wounded charged him 
and thrust her horn right through the middle of his body. 
We spent several days vainly hunting bongo in the 
dense mountain forests, with half a dozen ’Ndorobo. These 
were true ’Ndorobo, who never cultivate the ground, living 
in the deep forests on wild honey and game. It has been 
said that they hunt but little, and only elephant and rhino; 
