HUNTING IN THE EAST INDIES 



IIYDER AM. 



CHAPTER III. 



HUNTING IN THE EAST INDIES. 



UNTING was a favorite diver- 

 sion of the bloody conqueror, 

 Jenghiz Khan, if indeed the 

 word diversion can be applied 

 to a monster whose mind was 

 set upon the destruction of his 

 own species, and who only en- 

 deavored to make the murder 

 of brutes subservient to that of 

 men, by keeping his soldiers in a kind of warfare with the beasts 

 when they had no humaa enemies to contend with. His expe- 

 ditions were conducted on a plan similar to that of the Mexicans 

 already mentioned ; and were no doubt attended with stil] greater 



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