THE CHETAH, OR HUNTING LEOPARD. 65 
Such are the outward and physical characteristics of 
this beautiful animal; in his moral and intellectual qua- 
lities he differs still more widely from that compound 
of unteachableness, malice, and mistrust, which is the 
necessary result of the low degree of intelligence pos- 
sessed by the remainder of the group of animals with 
which he is at present associated. Of his habits in a 
state of nature we have no certain information; but in 
his tamed and domesticated condition he has been ren- 
dered, in some countries at least, auxiliary to man, by 
the successful cultivation of his mental faculties, which 
have been trained into a degree of subservience to the 
commands of his master, that can only be surpassed by 
the superior sagacity of the hound. Chardin, Bernier, 
Tavernier, and others of the older travellers had related 
that in several parts of Asia it was customary to make 
use of a large spotted cat in the pursuit of game, and 
that this animal was called Youze in Persia, and Chetah 
in India; but the statements of these writers were so 
imperfect, and the descriptions given by them so incom- 
plete, that it was next to impossible to recognise the 
particular species intended. We now, however, know 
with certainty that the animal thus employed is the 
Felis jubata of naturalists, which inhabits the greater 
part both of Asia and of Africa. It is common in India 
and Sumatra, as well as in Persia; and is well known 
both in Senegal and at the Cape of Good Hope; but the 
ingenuity of the savage natives of the latter countries 
has not, so far as we know, been exerted in rendering 
its services available in the chase in the manner so 
successfully practised by the more refined and civilized 
inhabitants of Persia and of Hindostan. In Senegal it 
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