The Bull and Ndorobo Boy
DUR G THE EARLY 1960s, I was hunting professionally for Law e Brown Saf is n Tanzania. On these two safaris, I was ed by a secon , Ray Palfrey. I was guiding a lady clien hen we had a sual incident with a leopard, which bears telling.
T e lady had wou unded the leopard, which had holed up in a pa of long gra g s, roughly 30 yards wide. A leopard c y hiding in long grass is invisible, so if you walk in to locate him, you can be sure his charge will come from mere feet away, and there is every chance he’ll be on you before you can get off a shot. For this reason I fired a couple of shots into the grass in the hope this would move him out, but he stayed put – we knew not where. Ray Palfrey was not far off and heard the shots, so he drove over to see if he could lend a hand. He said he had a couple of
