100 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
without apparent effort for ggme seventy paces, re-entered the 
river, and swam with the burden to the opposite bank. Azara 
states that although he did not follow across the river, he saw 
the marks where the Horse had been dragged down to the bank. 
By night, especially during the breeding-season, the Jaguar’s 
roar is constantly to be heard, and it has been compared to the 
syllables Au, pu, pw, very frequently repeated, and uttered in a 
very deep and hoarse tone. ‘The cubs are born about Decem- 
ber, and vary from two to four in a litter, the percentage of 
females being greater than that of males. The fur of the cubs 
is longer and less smooth than that of the adults, with the 
markings ill-defined. It is said that they will follow their dam 
when only about a fortnight old, at which age they are about 
the size of an ordinary Cat. When irritated, the cubs mew and 
snarl like a Cat, wrinkling the forehead, opening the mouth, 
and moving the tip of the tail slowly from side to side. Ac- 
cording to Azara, a Jaguar never ascends a perpendicular tree- 
trunk ; neither does he descend from those which are inclined 
by a spring, but walks or runs down, in the same manner as he 
ascended, like a Cat. 
In the wooded districts of Paraguay and the neighbouring 
countries, Jaguars were formerly hunted with large packs of 
Dogs, by whom they were generally driven up a tree, where 
they could easily be shot. On the open pampas the animal is 
more generally lassoed, the Gaucho who has first lassoed it 
setting off at a gallop, and dragging the animal after him, until 
a comrade can succeed in throwing another noose round the 
hind-limbs, when the unfortunate creature is killed by the two 
men pulling in opposite directions. 
When these animals were abundant on the Argentine pampas, 
Mr. W. H. Hudson relates that at Saladillo, a ‘‘ Gaucho had so 
repeatedly distinguished himself by his boldness and dexterity 
in killing Jaguars, that he was by general consent made the 
