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once, but if he fails so to do the keepers assist him by quiet 
gestures. 
No sooner does the deer appear than his bands are loosened, and 
he gently slips from the car. Employing all his innate artifices, the 
quadrupedal hunter approaches the game, and with one powerful 
leap flings himself upon the animal which he has selected. The 
keepers now hurry up, and take his attention from the slaughtered 
animal by offering him a ladleful of its blood, or by placing before 
him some food of which he is especially fond, such as the head and 
neck of a fowl. The hood is then slipped over his head, and the 
blinded animal is conducted patient and unresisting to the car, where 
he is secured, until another victim may be discovered. 
VERY DETERMINED-LOOKING ANIMAL. 
The fur of the cheetah is rather rough, and is by no means so 
smooth as that of the African or Asiatic leopard. Its color is very 
similar to that of the leopard, but the ground color of the fur is of 
a deeper fawn. The spots which so profusely stud the body and 
limbs are nearly round in their form, and black in their tint. Except¬ 
ing upon the face there seeem to be no stripes like those of the tiger, 
but upon each side of the face there is a bold black streak which runs 
from the eye to the corner of the mouth. The hair about the throat, 
chest, and flanks is rather long, and gives a very determinate look 
to the animal. 
Kermit and his father were highly elated at the success of their 
days’ hunting, as it was really the first good opportunity which 
Kermit had for exhibiting his prowess with the rifle, and the speci¬ 
mens secured possessed considerable value. 
The long journey made by the Roosevelt expedition from Nai¬ 
robi to the Sotik district was undertaken for the purpose of giving 
the former President an opportunity to bag a white rhinoceros. 
Colonel Roosevelt has often expressed a keen desire to kill one 
of these extremely rare animals, declaring that he would rather 
kill a white rhinoceros than any other single animal on the dark 
continent. 
Captain Richard Dawson, of the Coldstream Guards, who had 
