The Hef^fxhy of the Cals. 49 



Thelhres cf tbese areatores are in thems^res pooms^ idten 

 we dunk of the teiiitoffies d>^ rale oner, and the romances 

 of the coantij — Mexican, Red Indian, Perarian — in whidi 

 thejkxdil^ sunong the rains ctf a desobfed oriiisation in 

 die midst fA dwindled nations. Aniond diese animalls 

 nmneioas l^iends haxe of comse gadianed. Thns, the 

 jagoarand boa aie sn^pofied to ha¥<e an hereditaij falood- 

 faad — a fact l^idlej voold have delisted to know — and 

 die jaignar, again, viD not haim cjiildien, while die pretty 

 stoiy of Maldonata and her poma i cf ive s with gitacefal 

 additions dae old AndnxJes traditknL 



Shdkj and Keats bodt mention die Oonce fay name^ the 

 fismer in cikh' fioar the cheetah, in die line — 



** As hooied ramces diog to t&e dmai deer,"' 



the latter to get a rhjme for '^poonce'' — "paid or oonceL'^ 

 This animaL however, is simplf die kc^xaord adaqpted by / 

 nature for existence in a lutteify cold riimate, and is pio- 

 bably the most beantiliil wild-beast <m oar eardi — and one 

 erf" die most powediiL It is the *" anow^eopaid " of Easttem 

 sportsmen, and its fleecy skin, ^Tery white or primrose 

 ydlow, with falac^ lin^ and rosettes and rasher larger dian 

 an average leofiardrs, is one cS. the chcNcest troj^iies ti the 

 Himalayan sMkartj. The Zoc^ogical Gardons have never 

 possessed a specimen! of this rare and lov^ carnhnore. 



To ctmdode this cliapter widi a qnotaticMi fi«»n my Esmy 

 in Uwtaimral HMerj^ — 



''The lesser carnivcNra,'' as diey are caEed, ^ay a very 

 bnportant part in the polkical system of the beasts. They 

 are die great fendatoiy pdnces or vicoojs <^ die wild woirld. 

 natmim^ kinship with royally, they possess within their 

 lespective earldoms all the privE^ss k& imd^sendent 



1 " Noali's Aifc, zo Essaj io UmaatBiral Hisfeorjr."" SanrpsiiM^ ]L©w, 



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