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THE KILIMA-NJABO EXPEDITION. 
way to form some idea of tlie practice of cannibalism ; 
I can only say that the succulence and quality of this 
creature’s flesh were quite unexceptionable. I have 
noticed this with most of the species of Old-World 
monkey I have as yet tasted. During my four months’ 
stay in Mandara’s country I ate the common Cercopitlie - 
cus jpygerythrus constantly, and found it made a very 
toothsome stew. The most remarkable monkey in all 
this region is probably the Colobus, which apparently 
offers a new variety or sub-species in the country 
round Kilima-njaro, remarkable for having an entirely 
white heavily-plumed tail. The common species, with 
a black tail tipped with white, I have shot in the 
forested plains near the coast. The Colobus monkey 
is almost the only one that quite avoids the neighbour¬ 
hood of man; the other genera frequent the vicinity 
of native plantations, and doubtless profit by the 
abundance of cultivated food. I never observed any 
Galago (a lemuroid animal) in this district, nor do the 
natives speak of one, although it is a genus well re¬ 
presented in other parts of Africa. 
Bats are by no means common or often seen. I saw 
some fruit-bats once in the forest hanging to a syca¬ 
more fig-tree. No member of the group of Insectivora 
came under my notice. The Carnivora in this country 
of big game are, of course, well represented. The lion 
is very abundant and very bold; but the leopard is 
more feared by the natives than his larger ally. 
While stopping in Mandara’s country, two of that 
chief’s subjects were killed by leopards, one of them 
an article of food. Vide the paper on the Cameroons, hy the Kev. 
George Grenfell, in the “Proceedings of the Poyal Geographical 
Society,” October, 1882, p, 590. Doubtless the great resemblance to 
human flesh is not held as a drawback. 
