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The njego, or leopard, is the most dreaded of all the night prowlers by all the animals of the great forest.
One night a njego, looking at his beautiful spotted skin, his long tail beating his flanks, exclaimed to himself: "Many creatures of the great forest hate and fear me, for I love blood. I thrive and live chiefly on kambis [antelopes] and ncheris [gazelles]. I have no friends. All think I am not to be trusted.