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once, but if he fails so to do the keepers assist him by quiet 

 gestures. 



No sooner does the deer appear than his bands are loosened, and 

 he gently slips from the car. Employing all his innate artifices, the 

 quadrupedal hunter approaches the game, and with one powerful 

 leap flings himself upon the animal which he has selected. The 

 keepers now hurry up, and take his attention from the slaughtered 

 animal by offering him a ladleful of its blood, or by placing before 

 him some food of which he is especially fond, such as the head and 

 neck of a fowl. The hood is then slipped over his head, and the 

 blinded animal is conducted patient and unresisting to the car, where 

 he is secured, until another victim may be discovered. 



VERY DETERMINED-LOOKING ANIMAL. 



The fur of the cheetah is rather rough, and is by no means so 

 smooth as that of the African or Asiatic leopard. Its color is very 

 similar to that of the leopard, but the ground color of the fur is of 

 a deeper fawn. The spots which so profusely stud the body and 

 limbs are nearly round in their form, and black in their tint. Except- 

 ing upon the face there seeem to be no stripes like those of the tiger, 

 but upon each side of the face there is a bold black streak which runs 

 from the eye to the corner of the mouth. The hair about the throat, 

 chest, and flanks is rather long, and gives a very determinate look 

 to the animal. 



Kermit and his father were highly elated at the success of their 

 days' hunting, as it was really the first good opportunity which 

 Kermit had for exhibiting his prowess with the rifle, and the speci- 

 mens secured possessed considerable value. 



The long journey made by the Roosevelt expedition from Nai- 

 robi to the Sotik district was undertaken for the purpose of giving 

 the former President an opportunity to bag a white rhinoceros. 



Colonel Roosevelt has often expressed a keen desire to kill one 

 of these extremely rare animals, declaring that he would rather 

 kill a white rhinoceros than any other single animal on the dark 

 continent. 



Captain Richard Dawson, of the Coldstream Guards, who had 



