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every bush and tree to conceal itself, till it 
arrives within the requisite distance, when 
with two or three great bounds it leaps 
upon its prey and brings it to the earth. 
The attendants immediately run up, and, 
while one diverts the attention of the chetah 
by offering it some of the blood, the other 
secures the game. If, however, the animal 
misses its aim, it returns to its keeper growl¬ 
ing sullenly and in great ill-humour, and 
can seldom be coaxed to undertake the 
chase again. The chetahs are sometimes 
led about the streets for sale in Indian 
cities; and it is said that in the great days 
of the Indian emperors more than a thou¬ 
sand have been carried out at once in the 
train of a native prince.” 
“It must have been a pretty sight,” said 
Sidney. 
“They sometimes took the field with a 
great deal of pomp, with hundreds of ele¬ 
phants, and thousand of followers, armed 
and unarmed, whose office it was to beat 
the bushes and drive all the game in a 
large extent of country into a circle around 
the prince and his nobility, who killed what 
they pleased. But there is little of this 
