Photo by Kermit Roosevelt 
Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons 
Colonel Roosevelt’s first South American jaguar, brought down from a tree at seventy yards dis- 
tance. 
muscular build of the lion. 
pounce on and devour large anacondas 
On one oceasion Cherrie was hunting pec- 
caries and the peccaries treed him. He 
was up there four hours. He found 
those four hours a little monotonous, I 
judge. I never had any adventure with 
them myself. 
ing grunts. 
They make queer moan- 
We spent a couple of days 
in getting the specimens that we brought 
We had four dogs with us. The 
ranchmen had loaned them to us al- 
though I doubt whether they really 
wished to let us have them, for the big 
peccary is a murderous foe of dogs. One 
of them frankly refused to let his dogs 
come, explaining that the fierce wild 
swine were “very badly brought up”’ 
and that respectable dogs and men 
ought not to go near them. We might 
just as well not have taken any dogs, 
however. Two of them as soon as they 
smelled the peccaries went home. The 
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back. 
The jaguar is heavier and more powerful than the African leopard, having the stout frame and 
It feeds on capybara and cayman, on peccary and deer, and will even 
third one made for a thicket about a 
hundred yards away and stayed there 
until he was sure which would come out 
ahead. The fourth advanced only when 
there was a man ahead of him. The 
dangerous little peccaries made fierce 
moaning grunts on their way through 
the jungle and rattled their tusks like 
castanets whenever we came up. 
Armadillos were unexpectedly inter- 
esting because they ran so fast. Once 
on a jaguar hunt we came upon two of 
the big nine-banded armadillos, which 
are called the “big armadillos.’’ The 
dogs raced at them. One of the arma- 
dillos got into the thick brush. The 
other ran for a hundred yards with the 
dogs close upon it, wheeled and came 
back like a bullet right through the pack. 
Its wedged-shaped snout and armored 
body made the dogs totally unable to 
