kilful management, to approach within two hundred yards
of the game. On this occasion we had three chetahs in the field, and
we proceeded towards the spot where the herd had been seen, in a line,
with an interval of about one hundred yards between each cart. On
emerging from a cotton-field, we came in sight of four antelopes, and
my driver managed to get within one hundred yards of them ere they
took alarm. The chetah was quickly unhooded, and loosed from his
bonds; and as soon as he viewed the deer he dropped quietly off
the cart, on the _opposite_ side to that on which they stood, and
approached them at a slow, crouching canter, masking himself by
every bush and inequality of ground which lay in in his way. As soon,
however, as they began to show alarm, he quickened his pace, and was
in the midst of the herd in a few bounds.

"He singled out a doe, and ran it close for about two hundred yards,
when he reached it with a blow of his paw, rolled it over, and in an
instant was sucking the life-blood from its throat.

"One of the other chetahs was slipped at the same time, but after
making four or five desperate bounds, by which he nearly reached his
prey, suddenly gave up the pursuit, and came growling sulkily back to
his cart.

"As soon as the deer is pulled down, a keeper runs up, hoods the
chetah cuts the victim's throat, and receiving some of the blood in
a wooden ladle, thrusts it under the leopard's nose. The antelope
is then dragged away, and placed in a receptacle under the hackery,
whilst the chetah is rewarded with a leg for his pains."[1]

[Footnote 1: A pair of fine Chetahs, or Hunting Leopards, may be seen
in the Gardens of the Zoological Society.--ED. M.]

An Alligator in the Ganges.

"A beautiful specimen of an alligator's head was here given by Mr.
Alexander to Lord Combermere. He was rather a distinguished monster,
having carried off at different occasions, six or eight brace of men
from an indigo factory in the neighbourhood. A native, who had long
laid wait for him, at length succeeded in slaying him with poisoned
arrows. One of these notoriously ghaut-frequenting alligators is well
nigh as rich a prize to the poor native who is fortunate enough to
capture him, as a Spanish galleon is to a British frigate; for on
ripping open his stomach, and over-hauling its freight, it is not
unfrequently found to contain 'a choice assortment'--as the Calcutta
advertisers have it--of gold, silver, or brass bang