title: African Animals (True Books: Animals)
author: Ann O. Squire
description: Ann O Squire is the author of several nonfiction books for children.
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  African Adventure
  
  
  By Willard Price
  
  
  
  
  
  Note
  
  
  The characters in this story are fictional. The descriptions of the habits of
  animals, nature of the Leopard Society and customs of the people are factual.
  The author made frequent journeys in Africa, including seven safaris in big-
  game country. As a naturalist, he led expeditions for the National Geographic
  Society and the American Museum of Natural History.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  ### Leopard in the night
  
  Hal woke with a start. He found himself sitting up in bed, his spine tingling.
  What had roused him? A cry of some sort.
  
  
  The play of light and shadow in the tent told him that the camp-fire outside
  was still burning. It was meant to keep off dangerous visitors. Wild animals
  were all about -yet the sound he had heard did not seem the voice of an
  animal.
  
  
  Still, he could be mistaken. This was his first night in the African wilds.
  Beside the camp-fire earlier in the evening he and his younger brother, Roger,
  had list