OCELOT. 
** with fresh meat, of which they eat from. 
seven to eiglit pounds a day. The Male 
" and Female rub against each other, hke our 
*' Domestic Cats. The Maies have a remark- 
" able superiority over the Females. Not- 
*' withstanding the violent appetite of these 
two anim.als for flesh, the Female never pre- 
*' suined to partake till the JMalev/as satiated, 
or gave her the pieces he had rejected. I 
*' sometimes gave them a live Cat, the blood 
" of which they sucked till the animal died, 
but they never eat it's flesh. I put on board 
*' two Kids for their subsistence, for they nei- 
*' ther eat boiled nor salted meat." 
It appears from the testimony of Bolivar, 
and likewise from that of M. L'Escot, that 
the Female Ocelot produces but two young at 
a litter; for the latter informs us that, before 
the two young ones mentioned above were 
taken, the mother was killed. The Ocelots., 
like the Jaguar, the Panther, the Leopard, the 
I'iger, the Lion, and all animals remarkable 
for the largeness of their size, produce but a 
small number at a time ; but the produici:ion.s 
of a Cat, who may be associated with t'.r.fy 
tribe, are numerous : v/hich is a proof that the 
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