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close to the frequented village-green. The leopard 
ascends the mountain up to about 8000 feet, scarcely 
higher. I shot one of these creatures in the valley of 
a stream in broad daylight. I think it had been 
sleeping by the water, and was suddenly awakened by 
my near approach, and too dazed to fly immediately. 
The most common dog is the side-striped jackal. 
There is a wild dog found on Kilima-njaro which 
barks loudly. It is quite nocturnal, and I have never 
been able to shoot it; but from its appearance in 
bright moonlight it looks somewhat like the Abyssinian 
dog (Ganis Simensis ). The natives know it by a 
different name from that applied to the jackal—viz. 
Nzudu. 
Hyenas are very common, and both species, striped 
and spotted, are present; but the striped hyena more 
affects the hills, while the spotted kind inhabits the 
plains. The spotted hyena is a much more predatory 
animal here than one generally imagines. Not only 
does it steal sheep and calves from the herds, but it 
even carries off children, and will often attack wounded 
or weakly men. I once sent a sick man back to the 
coast a short distance by himself, and he was severely 
bitten at night by the hyenas. He succeeded, how¬ 
ever, in beating them off, and recovered from his 
wounds. 
Civets and genets are very abundant; so also are 
one or two specimens of ichneumon. I noticed no 
kind of weasel, ratel, or badger. 
The Orycterojous JEthiopicus, or Ant-bear, is common 
on the plains, to judge by his many huge burrows; 
but I have never seen him, and only identify him from 
natives’ descriptions. 
Among the Bo dent ia there were few that came under 
a a 
