JAGUAR. 
dared to close combat, when it is not alarmed by the great number of its 
assailants. The writer quotes an instance in which one of these animals 
had seized a horse belonging to a farm in the province of Oumana, and 
dragged it to a considerable distance. “ The groans of the dying horse,” 
says Humboldt, “ awoke the slaves of the farm, who went out armed with 
lances and cutlasses. The animal continued on its prey, awaited then- 
approach with firmness, and fell only after a long and obstinate resist- 
ance.” In the same article, the writer states that the Jaguar leaps into 
the water to attack the Indians in their canoes on the Oronoko. This 
animal called the Yagouarete in Paraguay if we are not mistaken, the 
foregoing article goes on to say, is described by gentlemen who have 
hunted it in that country, as a very courageous and powerful animal, of 
great activity, and highly dangerous when at bay. He also says : “ Both 
this species and the puma are rendered more formidable by the facility 
with which they can ascend trees. 
“A very beautiful Jaguar from Paraguay was some time ago carried 
alive to Liverpool. When the animal arrived, it was in full health, and 
though not fully grown was of a very formidable size and strength. The 
captain who brought it could venture to play with it, as it lay on one of 
the boats on deck, to which it was chained ; but it had been familiarized 
to him from the time it was the size of a small dog.” 
In Griffith’s Cuvier, vol. ii. p. 457, it is stated in a quotation from 
D’Azara, that the Jaguar is reported to “ stand in the water out of the 
stream, and drop its saliva, which, floating on the surface, draws the fish 
after it within reach, when it seizes them with the paw, and throws them 
ashore for food.” At the same page, it is said, “ The Jaguar is hunted 
with a number of dogs, which, although they have no chance of destroying 
it themselves, drive the animal into a tree, provided it can find one a little 
inclining, or else into some hole. In the first case the hunters kill it with 
fire-arms or lances ; and in the second, some of the natives are occasionally 
found hardy enough to approach it with the left arm covered with a sheep- 
skin, and to spear it with the other — a temerity which is frequently 
followed with fatal consequences to the hunter.” 
The Jaguars we examined in a menagerie at Charleston had periodical 
fits of bad temper : one of them severely bit his keeper, and was ready to 
give battle either to the Asiatic tiger or the lion, which were kept in 
separate cages. 
We add some extracts, with which we hope our readers will be 
interested : 
“ In the province of Tucuman, the common mode of killing the Jaguar is 
to trace him to his lair by the wool left on the bushes, if he has carried 
