124 LEOPARDS AND PANTHERS. 



hogs, goats, sheep, and now and then they 

 are known to kill bullocks. Like timers. 

 are supposed never to eat any animal they do 

 not kill. I have never heard of their attack- 

 ing men, unless first irritated by them. I have 

 frequently seen them in the covers, when they 

 always appeared alarmed, and fled as fast as 

 possible. In proportion to their size, they are 

 as strong as tigers, and more active. In proof 

 of which, a circumstance occurred whilst I 

 was at Chittrah, which is almost incredible, 

 but I pledge myself for the truth of it. Mr. 

 Hunter the Judge and Collector, had about 

 a dozen curious and rare deer confined in a 

 compound, surrounded by a wall about seven 

 feet high. 



During the absence of himself and family, 

 a servant who had charge of his house inform- 

 ed Mr. Smith and myself, that a panther or 

 leopard had leapt over the compound wall, two 

 or three nights in succession, arid had killed 

 and carried offa deer each night. 



