Contents 1
1 Poachers'Paradise 1
2 Poisoned arrows 8
3 Race with death 15
4 The judge 23
5 Friend or enemy? 29
6 Leopard comes to call 38
7 Blackbeard appears 51
8 Blackbeard disappears 63
9 The tiger-horse 67
10 Roger's cheetah 78
11 Mischief 87
12 Rescue 93
13 Red dust 100
14 A cheetah's dinner 107
15 The trial 116
16 Old Harbour 126
17 Thirty million years old 133
18 The treehouse 138
19 House of whispers 146
20 Men live,animals die 154
21 Tear gas 162
22 Massacre 168
23 Crash of the Stork 175
24 Fall of Blackbeard 181
25 Man-eaters 190
Notes 193
Vocabulary 231