. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . hispcissed so rapidly that the other man had scarcely time torecover from the confusion into which his feline foe hadthrown him, to seize his gun and rush forward to aid hiscomrade, when he beheld them rolling together down thesteep bank, in mortal conflict. In a few moments he was atthe bottom with them, but too late to save the life of hisfriend, who had so geillantly defended him. The leopardhad torn open the jugular vein, and so dreadfully m


. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . hispcissed so rapidly that the other man had scarcely time torecover from the confusion into which his feline foe hadthrown him, to seize his gun and rush forward to aid hiscomrade, when he beheld them rolling together down thesteep bank, in mortal conflict. In a few moments he was atthe bottom with them, but too late to save the life of hisfriend, who had so geillantly defended him. The leopardhad torn open the jugular vein, and so dreadfully mangledthe throat of the unfortunate man, that his death w£is inevit-able; and his comrade had only the melancholy satisfactionof completing the destruction of the savage beast, whichwas already much exhausted by several deep wounds ithad received in the breast, from the desperate knife of theexpiring huntsman. The Jaguar. The Jaguar, otherwise known as the AmericanLeopard, belongs to the forests of South America, and has manypoints of difference from as well as some of similarity with Digitized by Microsoft® Plate No. 5 MILES NATURAL


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