CONTENTS XVll 



Abyssinian Elophant-hunters — Importance of the Ivory Trade — The Asiatic 

 Elephant — Vast Numbers destroyed in Ceylon — Major Rogers — Elephant 

 Catchers — Their amazing Dexterity — The Corral — Decoy Elephants — Their 

 astonishing Sagacity — Great Mortality among the captured Elephants — Their 

 Services ........ Page 449 



CHAPTER XLI. 



THE FELIDiE OF THE OLD WOKLD. 



The Lion — Conflicts with Travellers on Mount Atlas — The Lion and the Hotten- 

 tot — A Lion taken in — Narrow Escapes of Andersson and Dr. Livingstone — 

 Lion-hunting by the Arabs of the Atlas — By the Bushmen — The Asiatic Lion 

 — The Lion and the Dog — The Tiger — The Javanese Jungle — The Peacock — 

 Wide Northern Range of the Tiger — Tiger-hunting in India — Miraculous 

 Escape of an English Sportsman — Animals announcing the Tiger's Presence — 

 Turtle-Hunting of the Tiger on the Coasts of Java — The Panther and the Leo- 

 pard — The Leopard attracted by the Smell of Small-Pox — The Cheetah — 

 The Hyaena — Fables told of these abject Animals — The Striped Hyaena — 

 The Spotted Hysena — The Brown Hyaena . . . .466 



CHAPTER XLII. 



THE FELID^ OF THE NEW WOBLD. 



'IMie Jaguar — Its Boldness — Jaguar Hunting — Heroic Conflict of Three Brazilian 

 Herdsmen with a Jaguar — The Couguar, or the Puma — His Cowardice — The 

 Ocelot ......... 486 



CHAPTER XLIH. 



THE SLOTH. 



Miserable Aspect of the Sloth — His Beautiful Organisation for his Peculiar Mode 

 of Life — His Rapid Movements in the Trees — His Means of Defence — His 

 Tenacity of Life — Fable about the Sloth refuted — The Ai — TheUnau — The 

 Mylodon Robustus ........ 492 



CHAPTER XLIV. 



THE ANT-EATEES OF THE NEW AND THE OLD WORLD. 



The Great Ant-Bear — Its Way of Licking up Termites — Its Formidable Weapons 

 — A Perfect Forest- Vagabond — Its Peculiar Manner of Walking — The Smaller 

 Ant-Eaters — The Manides — The African Orycteropi — The Porcupine Ant- 

 Eater of Australia — The Myrmecobius Fasciatns — The Armadillo — The 

 Glyptodon ........ 497 



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