“The nastiest customer,” he says, “is the Leopard, as it will frequently attack without warning even when it is not wounded and without being provoked. It has a sinuous movement coupled with lightning speed in attack; it is capable of leaping 30 feet, and is always vindictive and vicious.”
He has had more than his share of close shaves. Last year in the Mutha country Kitui, he came on an Elephant standing slightly aside from the herd. A friend who was with him put his foot on a dried stick. As the crack of the stick sounded the elephant came straight for him Like an express train.
