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lesser cats, but normally their cry is not unlike that of 

 the leopard, though pitched in a lower key. 



Caracals are generally believed to be untamable, and, 

 in fact, out of a good many young animals which I have 

 kept in captivity at Sabi Bridge at various times, I never 

 knew one which showed the least disposition to be friendly 



AFRICAN LYNX OR CARACAL 



to human beings ; but I met with an exception in 

 Portuguese territory, where the wife of the Commandant 

 of the Station at Muncha owned a nearly full-grown beast 

 which lay in her lap and was in all respects perfectly 

 amenable and docile with its mistress, and with some 

 persons whom it knew, though it showed considerable 

 antipathy to strange white men and to alfnatives. 



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