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indistinctly I perceived something that looked like a 
rounded feline head—a serval cat, I concluded—and 
promptly put in a charge of No. 2. The response was 
- startling. A great leopard, clawing and yowling, dropped 
off the ledge overhead and looked like tumbling right on 
top of us. I slipped in a bullet, but the beast had regained 
foothold and crawled into a lower crevice where, in the 
dark, we judged it prudent to leave him. Betimes next 
morning, with Achmet carrying four spears in a leather 
Rock-Rabbits ( Hyrax \).—On the Crags at Jebelein. 
quiver, we returned The rocks around the spot were 
splashed with blood, but the leopard had retreated. 
During the subsequent scramble, I saw another leopard 
close by among the rocks, besides hearing two more—the 
place seemed alive with them. Overnight we had set two 
big traps. One had been carried off, the strong rope¬ 
lashing bitten through. Expecting the captive to be a 
leopard, we trailed if upwards through strong thorn-bush 
and towering boulders, almost to the topmost ridge, to 
find ... a great gaunt striped hyena! Lynes (armed 
only for small birds) encountered another—a spotted 
hyena—quite unconscious of his presence within 50 yards. 
