NATURAL 
when the latrer has taken refuge 
onthe point of some steep rock, 
one of them will go below to wait 
for the prey, while the rest ad- 
vance and try to force it to preci- 
pitate itseif. 
‘Ido not, however, give credit 
to these pretended associations of 
animals ot the tyger kind. 
The chace of the kainsi is very 
amusing. . It can scarcely, indeed, 
be forced by dogs, from whom it 
soon escapes by its inconceivable 
agility, and gets out of their reach 
on the point of some insulated 
rock ; on which it remains for 
hours together, safe from all pur- 
suit, and suspended, as it were, 
over the abyss:—but in this po- 
sition it seems to offer the best 
mark to the ball or the arrow ; and 
if the hunter cannot always easily 
get at it after he has killed it, he 
may almost constantly shoot it. 
Many times have } been witness of 
the extreme nimbleness of the ani- 
mal: but one day I saw an instance 
of it which astonished me. 1 was 
hunting one, and from the nature 
of the place it was suddenly so 
pressed by my dog:, that it seemed 
to have no possioility of escape. 
Before it, was an immense per- 
pendicular crag, which stopped it 
short: but on this wall, which 
I thought vertical, was a little 
ledge projecting two inches at 
most, which the kainsivhad per- 
ceived. He-leaped on it, and to 
my great surprise held fast. I 
thought at least he would soon be 
precipitated ; and my dogs them- 
selves so much expected it, that 
they ran below to seize him when 
he should fall. I threw stones at 
him to endeavour to mzke him lose 
his balance, All at once, as if he 
had divined my intention, he col- 
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leGted all his force, ‘sprang to my 
side, flew over my head, and then,’ 
alighting some paces from mey 
escaped like lightning. I might 
still easily have shot him, but his 
leap had so surprised and pleased 
me that I gave him his life. My 
dogs only were taken in, who, con- 
fused at his escape, did not return 
to me without a kind of shame. 
— 
Reflections of certain effes of Heat 
and Cold an the living Sysiem, By 
Thimas Beddoes, M.D. From 
Medical Faas and Observations. 
I know. not whether it has 
been observed that the inflamma- 
tions, particularly chose of the eyes, 
which are so frequent. in. hot, ‘cli. 
mates, where it is the custom 
to sleep during the summer dig 
the open air, are to be referred 
to the succession, of heat to 
cold. - -Traveilers, especially those 
into Egypt, have variously attempt 
ed to-account tor this _phenomenon, 
Hasselquist imputes it to certain 
miasmaia aricing from the almost 
empty reservoirs .in which » the 
water bot the Nile ts preserved from 
inundation to inundation. TLhisiis, 
however, a mere hypothesis, un. 
confirmed by any strict analogy; 
nor is the supposed cause in «any: 
way brought home to the effect. 
As little, in my opinion, can the 
inflammation of the eyes be ascribed 
to the influence of the no¢turnal 
light of the heavens uponthe eye, the 
eyclids being more or less closed 
during sleep. ‘Lhe cause seems inae 
dequate. Jt is common, in this coun. 
try, to sleep in chambers not less 
strongly iijuminated (if not, more 
so) thun in Egs pt, during the night, 
without any inconvenience to our 
sight. 
