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better one, by a well known amateur 011 the spot, whose drawing 

 has been admirably repeated by Messrs. Nicholas and Curths, Photo- 

 graphers of Madras and Ootacamund. This pack with, if I remem- 

 ber right, only two exceptions, " Gracious" and " Purity" were 

 imported from England about 6 or 8 months before their exploit 

 which, as their recorder says, speaks volumes for the blood and 

 courage of the fox hound. Having got away from the huntsman 

 and the field, who had to skirt a ravine, they had killed a jackal by 

 themselves when " a fine full-grown cheetah suddenly bolted from a 

 sholah, and away went every dog full cry at his heels. They soon 

 came up with him, dashed at him, and rolled him over in the open. 

 What followed, speaks volumes for the blood and courage of the 

 fox hound. 



The cheetah left his mark on some of the dogs and broke away 

 into a small thick copse with a stream at the bottom. The dogs 

 followed bravely, and went straight at him again till cheetah and 

 dogs rolled one over the other into the stream below. Again the 

 cheetah broke away, and ensconced himself in the thickest part of 

 the nullah in the small copse abovementioned, where the dogs 

 brought him to bay. 



The horror of the master may be easily imagined when, coming 

 up just as the cheetah was fairly roused, he found an invisible 

 struggle going on, the furious barking of the dogs diversified by an 

 occasional howl, as with a low deep growl the beast charged some 

 of his boldest enemies. Every one gave up the hounds for lost, 

 but when, after half-an-hour's violent exertion on the part of the 

 field present the pack was at last whipped off, to the surprise and 

 relief of all, the whole thirteen couple turned up safe, though some 

 were wounded. The number of the assailants seems the only 

 explanation of such an escape from a beast, one stroke of whose 

 paw would have killed the strongest dog that ever barked. The 

 rush, however, of over twenty hounds on different sides as soon as 

 the cheetah turned in any one direction seems to have left him 

 neither time nor presence of mind for a single well-aimed blow, and 

 the few wounds inflicted were principally snaps. 



Guns had meanwhile been sent for from a neighbouring Badaga 



village, and Mr. making his way to a rock close to the 



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