THE HUNTING LEOPARD. 
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Centuries been employed in Barbary in the 
®uit of deer, and was used for the same 
^^pose both in France and Italy during the 
e ages. 
then, being unhooded, and slipped at 
. they fix on one, and fasten it down until 
is taken from them. If they miss their 
ll'i'ing, they give up the pursuit, and slink 
^ck to their keepers. 
According to Blumenbach, the cheetah has 
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The Cape colonists relate many frightful 
sometimes fatal encounters between the 
jUtiting leopard and his pursuers. The fol- 
circumstance occurred in 1822 . Two 
^•■iners returning from hunting the species of 
^'itelope called harteheest, roused a leopard in 
^ Hiountain ravine and immediately gave chase 
^ lihn. The .animal at first endeavoured to 
^^cape by clambering up a precipice ; but, 
hotly pursued, and wounded by a mus- 
®^'ball, he turned upon the hunters with 
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