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is positively afraid of the wild dog (Cwon rutilans), which readily attacks 
him in packs. ‘Then he often finds his match in the wild boar. I 
have myself seen an instance of this, in which the tiger was not only 
ripped to death, but had his chest-bone gnawed and crushed, evidently 
after life was extinct. 
Buffalos in herds hesitate not in attacking a tiger; and I saw one 
instance of their saving their herdsman from a man-eater. My camp 
was pitched on the banks of a stream under some talltrees. I had made 
a détour in order to try and kill this man-eater, and had sent on a hill 
tent the night before. I was met in the morning by the Afa/asz in 
charge, with a wonderful story of the tiger having rushed at him, but as 
the man was a romancer I disbelieved him. On the other side of the 
stream was a gentle slope of turf and bushes, rising gradually to a rocky 
hill. The slope was dotted with grazing herds, and here and there a 
group of buffalos. Late in the afternoon I heard some piercing cries 
from my people of “ Zagh/ Bagh!” The cows stampeded, as they 
always do. A struggle was going on in the bush, with loud cries of a 
human voice. The buffalos threw up their heads, and, grunting loudly, 
charged down on the spot, and then in a body went charging on through 
the brushwood. Other herdsmen and villagers ran up, and a charpoy 
was sent for and the man brought into the village. He was badly 
scratched, but had escaped any serious fang wounds from his having, as 
he said, seen the tiger coming at him, and stuffed his blanket into his 
open mouth, whilst he belaboured him with his axe. Anyhow but for 
his buffalos he would have been a dead man in three minutes more. 
THE PARDS OR PANTHERS, 
To these are commonly assigned the name of Leopard, which ought 
properly to be restricted to the hunting leopard (Felis jubata), to 
which we have also misappropriated the Indian name CZz¢a, which 
applies to all spotted cats, Chita-bagh being spotted tiger. The same 
term, derived from the adjective chAita, spotted or sprinkled, applies 
in various forms to the other creatures, such as Cyital, the spotted 
deer (Axis), Chita-bora, a kind of speckled snake, &c. Leopardus or 
lion-panther was, without doubt, the name given by the ancients to the 
hunting leopard, which was well known to them from its extending 
into Africa and Arabia. Assuredly the prophet Habakkuk spoke of the 
hunting chita when he said of the Chaldzans: ‘“ That bitter and hasty 
nation. . . . their horses also are swifter than the leopards,” for the pard 
is not a swift animal, whereas the speed of the other is well known. 
The name was given to it by the ancients on the supposition that it 
