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infested by leopards, which had become bold enough 
to kill some of his women by springing at their 
throats while they were in the act of cutting grass 
for the cows. He declared that only a few days ago 
he had tied one native up as bait and posted another 
in hiding with a gun to shoot the beast when it came; 
the only result from this manoeuvre was that the leopard 
hilled the human bait and ivas clean missed by the 
sportsman in ambush. 
H- paid Mandara a second visit after the rest 
of us had left the country, and made him a present 
of the coveted lion-trap. I have subsequently heard 
the brute never attempted to catch any leopards with 
it, but merely amused himself by having it set, and 
forcing some of his old wives to walk into it and 
letting the poor wretches remain in its powerful grip 
for several hours. I believe Mr. Eider Haggard has 
enlarged upon this iniquity in “ Maiwa’s Kevenge.” 
We asked Mandara to give us a milch cow; so, after 
seeing everything we had to show, and getting all we 
intended to give, he led the way with great solemnity 
and introduced us to the creature he proposed lending 
us, on condition we returned her to him when the milk- 
supply was exhausted. We could have done equally 
well without this particular cow, as she never yielded 
one single drop of milk from the day we received her. 
Having disposed of Mandara for the present, we 
climbed with Mr. Fitch up to his house at Kitimberiu, 
about two miles off, and a thousand feet higher up the 
mountain. We found a comfortable little two-roomed 
