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eager and confident manner of pressing on after the game is 

 immediately changed, and with the hair on their backs erect 

 they become cautious and nervous to a degree, jumping at 

 even the snapping of a twig. Abandoning the hunt they take 

 up the Tiger's track and follow it. But should the huntsman 

 call them from it, or not cheer them on with his voice from 

 time to time, they exhibit great fear, and keeping close to his 

 heels cannot be induced to hunt any more in that district for 

 that day. 



" On the contrary, if allowed to follow the Tiger, they track 

 it up with caution, being fully aware of the cunning dodge 

 practised by that animal ; which is, when the dog is close at 

 hand, to spring to one side and lie in ambush until it passes, 

 when with one spring the dog is seized. 



"Ordinaiy dogs would fall a prey to this trap, but not the 

 self-taught Tiger- dogs. Their fine powers of scent warn them 

 of their near approach to the quarry, when they advance with 

 great caution, never failing to detect the Tiger in time, and 

 when once their eye is upon their enemy it has no chance of 

 escape. 



" In its pride of strength, the Jaguar scorns the dogs, and 

 with a rush like a ball from a cannon springs madly at one of 

 them, feeling sure that it cannot escape. It has reckoned, 

 however, without its host, for the dog eludes the spring with 

 ease, and with great quickness flies on the Tiger's flank, giving 

 it a severe nip. As the Tiger turns with a growl of pain and 

 disappointment, the dog is off to a little distance, yelping 

 lustily, and never remaining still an instant, but darting first 

 on one side and then on the other. After one or two in 

 effectual charges the Tiger gives it up, and on the approach of 

 the hunter springs into the nearest suitable tree, which it 

 seldom leaves alive." 



It is to be wished that Waterton had secured an uninjured 

 specimen of a Jaguar skin, on which he might have exercised 

 his unrivalled powers of taxidermy. 



Jumbo. — The negroes still retain this term for their chief 



