Chapter VI: Notes on the Spotted Hyæna

Character of hyænas--Contrasted with that of wolves--Story
illustrating the strength and audacity of a spotted hyæna--How a
goat was seized and carried off--A mean trick--Boldness of hyænas
near native villages--More suspicious in the wilderness--Very
destructive to native live stock--Will sometimes enter native
huts--Giving an old woman to the hyænas--How the smelling out
of witches benefited the hyænas--"Come out, missionary, and
give us the witch"--Number of hyænas infesting Matabeleland in
olden times--Trials for witchcraft in Matabeleland--Food of
hyænas--Strength of jaws--Charged by a wounded hyæna--Heavy trap
broken up--Killing hyænas with set guns--Hyæna held by dogs--Hyæna
attacked by wild dogs--Pace of hyænas--Curious experience on
the Mababi plain--The hyæna's howl--Rhinoceros calf killed by
hyænas--Smell of hyænas--Hyæna meat a delicacy--Small cows and
donkeys easily killed by hyænas--Size and weight of the spotted
hyæna--Number of whelps Pages 98-118

CHAPTER VII

NOTES ON WILD DOGS AND CHETAHS

Wild dogs not very numerous--Hunt in packs--Attack herd of
buffaloes--First experience with wild dogs--Impala antelope
killed--Koodoo cow driven into shed--Koodoo driven to
waggon--Wild dogs not dangerous to human beings--Greatly feared
by all antelopes--Wild dog pursuing sable antelope--Great pace
displayed--Wild dogs capable of running down every kind of African
antelope--General opinion as to the running powers of wild
dogs--Curious incidents--Chasing wild dogs with tame ones--One
wild dog galloped over and shot--Two others caught and worried
by tame dogs--Wild dog shamming dead--Clever escape--Chetahs
overtaken on horseback--Three chetahs seen--Two females
passed--Male galloped down--A second chetah overtaken--Great speed
of trained Indian chetahs--Three chetah cubs found--Brought up by
bitch Pages 119-129