Vol. Ill, No. 1.] On Hunting Bogs and Cheetas. 49 





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On Cheetas. 



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The Cheeta is the ofPspring of a lioness, by a leopard * that 

 coerces her, and, for this reason, cheetas are sterile like mules and 

 all other hybrids. No animal of the same size is as weighty as 

 the cheeta. It is the most somnolent animal on earth. The best 

 are those that are * hollow-bellied/ ^ roachbacked, ^ and have 

 deep black spots on a dark tawny * ground, the spots on the back 

 being close to each other 7 ; that have the eyes^ blood-shot, small, 



tiger. 



[n MS. ^^^iUiifl . 2 Yide Note 4, Eng. Trang. 3 In MS. ^| . 



♦ Namir or nimr, any spotted anim&I ; in modern Arabic applied to the 



^imdsu-l'haiun : a^man is " the belly beln^af hollow from hunger *' (the 

 opposit*^ of aq'fhh). Might also mean '* wuh the flHnkfi drawn in." 

 8 Ainm the colour of Ad^m or of mankind (the Arabs), 

 1 Arqnah *' peppf^r and ^alt coloured/' means that the dark and light 

 spots must be olose to each other. 



8 lfu*g ^5^ P^' omdq^ properly the ** inner corner of the eye," is often 



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