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oeuvring, a man who knows his work should almost always be able to 

 get moderately close to a herd of antelope as they cross in a certain 

 direction. 



For instance ; a herd of antelope are moving quietly four hun- 

 dred yards or so to the right of the cart which they take for some 

 innocent one of every-day life. The cart is driven so as to hit on 

 some place, practice and eye soon enable one to tell that pretty 

 fairly, within leopard-eye range of which the rear of the herd will 

 probably cross the line : antelope like sheep follow the leader very 

 closely. So that, when the thin cord by which a leopard is 

 nominally held is slipped from a small belt which encircles his loins, 

 matters stand somewhat as the annexed diagram tries to explain, 

 and the cart being driven inside of the probable line to be taken, 

 the men who are being jolted along on it are nearly certain to have 

 a fair view of start, course and finish. 



The admirable sportsman just alluded to told me as a proof of 

 the want of endurance of a hunting leopard, that he once, while 

 mounted and looking for other game, came on one which he cut off 

 from a hill it tried to reach ; for a short distance it out-paced his 

 horse completely, but on his continuing to press it at the utmost 

 speed of the Arab, it squatted in a small bush out of which it how- 

 ever sprang and made off on his attempting to spear it as the horse 

 rushed past. It had, however, either lost wind or courage com- 

 pletely for he closed with it this second time and speared it with- 

 out the least difficulty. It was a large male, and the skin which I 

 have seen was in excellent order, with fur and mane very long. 



No- 28- Hysena-striata- 



JERDON, No. 118, PAGE 118 ; STRIPED HYAENA. 

 Is not the Teloogoo name here given for this animal a mistake ? 

 As far as I can remember it is always called " Doomool goondoo" 

 by Telingas in the Deccan, the Northern Circars, and the Ceded 

 Districts. The term, I have heard, means bone-crusher. A hyaena, 

 page 119 of Jerdon, gives a long run before he is speared, not 

 from the speed of the animal, for he is easily overtaken by a good 

 horse, but from the way the brute turns and doubles just as the 

 spear glitters over his back. 



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