] 1 1 CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



-ii;lit of one of tin- monkevs put liini in complete fury. While at anchor in tin- before-ment ioned 

 ri\ IT. MII urMiii; outani; (.^ i in in Siifi/i-im) w.tn brought for sale, and lived three days mi hoard ; and 1 

 shall never forget tin- uncontrollable rage of the one, or the agony of tlie other, at this meeting. The 

 inuii.' :!* alimit three feet high, and very powerful in proportion to his si/e ; so that when lie fled, 

 \iiih extraordinary rapidity, from the panther to the further end of the deck, neither men nor things 

 remained upright when they o]iposed his jirogi-ess : there he took refuge in a sail, and, although 

 sjenrrallv obedient to the voiee of his master, force was necessary to make him quit the shelter of its 

 folds. As to the jiauther, his back rose in an arch, his tail was elevated and perfectly stiff, his eyes 

 flashed, and, as he howled, he showed his huge teeth ; then, as if forgetting the bars before him, he 

 tried to spring on the orang, to tear him to atoms. It was long before he recovered his tranquillity ; 

 da\ and night he appeared to be on the wateh ; and the approach of a large monkey we had on board, 

 or the intrusion of a black man, brought a return of his agitation. 



" We, at length, sailed for England, with an ample supply of provisions; but, unhappily, we were 

 boarded by pirates during the voyage, and nearly reduced to starvation. My panther must have 

 ]>erished had it not been for a collection of more than three hundred parrots with which we sailed from 

 the river, and which died very fast while we were in the north-west trades. Sa'i's allowance was one 

 per diem ; but this was so scanty a pittance that he became ravenous, and had not patience to pick all 

 the feathers off before he commenced his meal. The consequence was, that he became very ill, and 

 refused even this small quantity of food. Those around tried to persuade me that he suffered from the 

 colder climate; but his dry nose and paws convinced me that he was feverish, and I had him taken 

 out of his cage ; when, instead of jumping about and enjoying his liberty, he lay down, and rested his 

 head upon my feet. I then made him three pills, each containing two grains of calomel. The boy who 

 had the charge of him, and who was much attached to him, held his jaws open, and I pushed the 

 medicine down his throat. Early the next morning I went to visit my patient, and found his guard 

 sleeping in the cage with him ; and having administered a further dose to the invalid, I had the 

 satisfaction of seeing him perfectly cured by the evening. On the arrival of the vessel in the London 

 Docks Sai was taken ashore and presented to the Duchess of York, who placed him in Exeter Change, 

 to be taken care of, till she herself went to Oatlands. He remained there for some weeks, and was 

 suffered to roam about the greater part of the day without any restraint. On the morning previous to 

 the Duchess's departure from town, she went to visit her new pet, played with him, and admired his 

 healthy appearance and gentle deportment. In the evening, when her Royal Highness's coachman 

 went to take him away, he was dead, in consequence of an inflammation of his lungs." 



THE JAGUAE* 



THIS is the form of the leopard found in the New World; and hence it is called the American panther. 

 It is robust, far stouter than the leopard, and is very strongly built. The body is thicker, the limbs 

 shorter and fuller, and the tail scarcely reaches the ground when the animal is well up on its feet. 

 The head is larger, and rather shorter than that of the leopard, and the profile of the forehead more 

 prominent. When full grown, the animal is said to measure from four to five feet from the nose to the 

 root of the tail. 



Mr. Bennett has given the best description of the jaguar. Showing how it varies from the leopard^ 

 , > : '-These differences of form are accompanied by differences of colour and markings equally 

 decisive. The general appearance is, at the first glance, the same in both; but the' open roses of the 

 leopard are scarcely more than half the si/.e of those of the jaguar, and they all inclose a space of one 

 uniform colour, in which, unless in some rare and accidental instances, no central spots exist ; while in 

 the latter animal, most of those which are arranged along the upper surface, near the middle line of 

 the back, an- distinguished by one or two small black spots inclosed within their circuit. The middle 

 line it-elf i~ occupied in the leopard by open roses intermixed with a few black spots of small sixe and 

 roundish form ; that of ilic jaguar, on the contrary, is marked by one or two regular longitudinal lines 

 of broad, elongated, deep-black patches, sometimes extending several inches in length, and occasionally 



* Fclia on<;a. Linna-us Felis onza. Marcgrave. 



