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giving them confidence, and preventing their 

 feeling the full force of that fascination which 

 to a single deer produces a sort of panic, and 

 appears to divest him of the power or even 

 inclination to run away, or make any resis- 

 tance. It is clear that they must always 

 catch them by stealth, or in the manner I 

 have described, for they are not so swift even 

 as common deer. 



Antelopes are the swiftest of all deer. The 

 keeper carries with him some carrion, com- 

 monly bullocks liver, which he gives the 

 cheetahs when they have caught a deer to 

 induce them to surrender it. They are then 

 allowed to satisfy their hunger and are again 

 blinded and chained. I believe they seldom 

 if ever kill more than one deer with each 

 cheetah or seeharghoosh on the same day. 

 Two are often loosened after the same deer, 

 but more frequently, after two, or a herd. 



Foxes are numerous in all parts of India. 

 They are about half the size of the English 



