a locust. It is quite impossible to attempt to keep the house free from them, and one hears a constant flip, flip, as they jump about in the room. There are numbers of spiders, some of which appear to have no body at all, and others with big bodies and big eyes, quite different from anything one has ever seen in England. There are beetles of every size imaginable, from the smallest ladybird to beetles as large as ones fist.
The larger animals dangerous to life, lions and leopards, are very plentiful in most parts, but are not often found near to the main centres. Down in the south, in the country of Ankole, lions abound. The people have great herds of cattle, and the lions come round almost every night and try to steal them. The natives are not at all afraid of these beasts, and rarely attempt to spear them or to fire a gun. If they did, and they wounded the lion, they would probably get the worst of the fight. They have found
