JAUNTS IN THE JUNGLE. 109 



It was a magnificent spring ! for he was running 

 directly in the victim's rear at the time he made 

 the bound, consequently he cleared the whole length 

 of the back of the antelope before he alighted on the 

 fatal spot ! 



One of the attendants coming up, plunged a knife 

 into the neck of the fallen quarry, which the cheetah 

 immediately took advantage of by thrusting in his 

 nose, and taking an apparently most gratifying and 

 luxurious draught of the warm blood that had so 

 lately animated the still gasping deer. 



After this repast was finished, the gentleman was 

 reconducted, in a very plethoric state, to his carriage, 

 where having left him, wrapt in the intensest state of 

 somnolency, we proceeded to look after the other 

 animals, each of which we found in possession of an 

 antelope, quietly keeping guard until its keeper 

 should arrive, and reward its fidelity with the antici- 

 pated sanguinary draught. 



The hog-deer derives its appellation from its cha- 

 racteristic attributes of that porcine quadruped. 



It is a large, ungainly, savage brute, with a humped 

 back, and carrying two tremendous tusks in its jaw, 

 similar to those of the wild boar. 



Whether it is really a breed of itself, I cannot say ; 

 but it is singular, though nevertheless true, that in 



