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reluctantly compelled to abandon that prize. The 
following month, however, our Kaffirs (this was in 
the Transvaal) brought in another civet which they had 
killed with assegais—quite how, I never could understand. 
Another animal of which one may get an occasional 
glimpse is the genet, which in East Africa I have twice 
chased to ground and once to a hollow tree. On the 
latter occasion the gun-bearer who was with me put in 
his hand, and though badly bitten, pulled the genet out. 
CIVET. 
This, how r ever, can hardly be defined as belonging to 
the unseen world, being partly arboreal, and on one 
occasion in the Transvaal, my friend Ingle, spying one 
in the fork of a tree, placed a *303 bullet in its eye, and 
the skin lies before me now. Then there are the 
mongoose tribes—swarms of them ; yet how rarely one 
sees these, whether in Africa or Spain. In the latter 
land, if attended by one who knows, and prepared with 
pick and spade to shift considerable portions of earth’s 
superficies, one may capture half-a-dozen in a single 
burrow. In Africa the only mongoose met with are 
mentioned at p. 33 above. 
A reclusive neighbour in South Africa (but not so 
