Herds of waterbuck and of kob stared 
tamely at me as I walked along; whereas a 
little party of hartebeest were wild and shy. 
On other occasions I have seen this conduct 
•exactly reversed, the hartebeest being tame, 
and the waterbuck and kob shy. Heller, as 
usual, came out and camped by this rhino, 
to handle the skin and skeleton. In the 
middle of the night a leopard got caught in 
•one of his small steel traps, which he had 
set out with a light drag. The beast made 
a terrific row and went off with the trap 
and drag. It was only caught by one 
toe; a hyena similarly caught would have 
wrenched itself loose; but the leopard, 
though a far braver and more dangerous 
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beast, has less fortitude under pain than a 
hyena. Heller tracked it up in the morn¬ 
ing, and shot it as, hampered by the trap 
and drag, it charged the porters. 
On the ashes of the fresh burn the foot¬ 
prints of the game showed almost as dis¬ 
tinctly as on snow. One morning we saw 
where a herd of elephant, cows and calves, 
had come down the night before to drink 
at a big bay of the Nile, three or four miles 
north of our camp. Numerous hippo tracks 
showed that during the darkness these 
beasts wandered freely a mile or two inland. 
They often wandered back of our camp at 
night. Always beside these night trails we 
found withered remnants of water cabbage 
