Havoc amojtg the Europeans. 73 heart, and issued at the other side. They took the skin, and a part of the fat, which is considered an excellent remedy for wounds. The leopard was not more than two feet high, but it measured some six feet in length without the tail. Its paws were short, but thick, and the head very large and round, and, by its splendid skin, must have been a female.

Poor Haggi had been so frightened that for several days he did not hunt. In two years and a half he had killed fourteen lions and an enormous number of buffaloes, but he had never felt so much alarm as with this leopard. The reason for this does not seem to me difficult to discover. He had been attacked unexpectedly, when he had but one barrel loaded, and besides, the leoj)ard is much more dangerous than the lion, being more swift and more bloodthirsty.

It ver} rarely happens that a wounded lion attacks the hunter, especially if the latter does not go towards him after the shot. In the space of four months I had seen seven lions, one of which had passed me at a little distance, but all had pursued their own way, and at a hundred paces ' distance had taken to a headlong galop, an evident sign of their fear.

It is generally the old lions that attack men, and the natives thus belicAX that when the lion has tasted human flesh he lives for nothing else, and despises all other meat.

At half a day's distance from Gaba-Sliambe there is a village which suffered greatly because of a lion. Every other day he carried off a man. The inhabitants believed him to be sent by the Evil Spirit to punish them, and such was their terror that they did not venture to kill the bloodthirsty brute, contenting themselves with remaining in their houses after nightfall. But the lion, not paying much attention to their precaution, entered the village, and the first person he met was always his victim. This continued for several