CHAPTER VII 



NOTES ON WILD DOGS AND CUETAHS 



Wild clogs not very numerous Hunt in packs Attack herd of 

 buffaloes -First experience with wild dogs Impala antelope 

 killed Koodoo cow driven into shed Koodoo driven to 

 waggon Wild dogs not dangerous to human beings Greatly 

 feared by all antelopes Wild dog pursuing sable antelope 

 Great pace displayed Wild dogs capable of running down 

 every kind of African antelope General opinion as to the 

 running powers of wild dogs Curious incidents Chasing wild 

 dogs with tame ones One wild dog galloped over and shot 

 Two others caught and worried by tame clogs Wild dog 

 shamming dead Clever escape Chetahs overtaken on horse- 

 backThree chetahs seen Two females passed Male 

 galloped down A second chetah overtaken Great speed of 

 trained Indian chetahs Three chetah cubs found Brought 

 up by bitch. 



I DO not think that the Cape hunting dog (Lycaon 

 pieties] was ever very numerous in the interior of 

 South Africa, as at the time when I was elephant- 

 hunting, many years ago, and continually moving 

 about, day after day and year after year, in countries 

 where game was plentiful, I never encountered more 

 than two or three packs of these animals in a year's 

 wanderings, and there were several years not 

 consecutive during which I did not meet with any 

 at all. So far as my memory serves me, I think 

 that the wild dogs I came across with the exception 

 of a single animal which was chasing a sable antelope 

 bull were in packs of from fifteen to thirty. 



At times I have come across these animals lying 



