The Chetah is found in India and Africa but it is only in India that it is trained for hunting purposes.
The practice of employing animals to hunt animals is of very early origin, and the docility of the Chetah early marked him out as a suitable ally in the chase.
The antelope is then dragged away and placed in a receptacle under the hatchery, while the Chetah is rewarded with a leg for his pains.
The Chetah or Hunting Leopard is the one species of the genus CynA"lurus.
This second chetah was shot by Jameson from his horse's back as soon as he could pull in, and it never moved again after first crouching down.
This chetahdid not get much of a start, as we galloped after him as soon as ever we could get our horses started.
The chase may have lasted for a mile, though I think certainly not farther, and the chetah never seemed to be able to get away from us, and if he was capable of going at a greater pace, I cannot understand why he did not do so.
I do not know what became of those chetah cubs, as my duties as guide and chief intelligence officer of the pioneer force made it impossible for me to attend to them; but I believe they were suckled by a bitch and lived for some time.
I had scarcely spoken when up jumped a very large male chetah within twenty yards of my horse and bounded away across the open ground, holding his long, thick, furry tail straight out behind him.
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.
I'd told Ivy where I was going to spread the chetahand that after that I'd come straight home.
He was still warm; and he was flat--very flat, like a rug made of chetah skin.
About one-sixth of them were at Chetah and in its vicinity.
The road from Nerchinsk to Chetah is through an undulating country, the hills in many places being high enough to merit the name of mountains.
I found the Kiachta route rougher than any part of the way from Chetah to Verkne Udinsk, and as the yemshick took us at a rattling pace we were pretty thoroughly shaken up.
Chetah stands on the left bank of the Ingodah, nearly three hundred miles above Stratensk, and is the capital of the Trans-Baikal province.
The priest was then among the exiles at Nerchinsk Zavod, three hundred miles away, and his arrival at Chetah was anxiously looked for by others than my new acquaintance.
He arrived in Chetah a month before my visit, and was just opening a stock of goods to trade with the natives.
During my stay at Chetah a party was organized to hunt gazelles.
I saw at Chetah a chess board in a box ten inches square with a miniature tree six inches high on its cover.
On leaving Chetah we crossed a frozen stream tributary to the Ingodah, and proceeded rapidly over an excellent road.
The prisoners at Chetah were laboring on the streets, preparing logs for house-building, or erecting fences.
We reached Chetah at five in the morning and roused the inmates of the only hotel.
Around Chetah and in most of the Trans-Baikal province there is not snow enough for good sleighing, and the winter roads generally follow the frozen rivers.
We met several carts, one-horse affairs on two wheels, laden with hay for the Chetah market.
The hunters ride quietly after it, and before they have gone very far they are sure to find the chetahwith its victim pinned upon the ground.
Indeed, a chetah has actually been seen to put up a blackbuck two hundred yards away, and to run it down within a quarter of a mile.
So we may consider the chetah as partly a cat and partly a dog--a connecting link joining the two families together.
When the natives want to catch a chetah or two, in order to train them for hunting, they do so in rather a curious way.
The chetah does not capture its prey as other cats do.
Then the throat of the animal is cut, and some of the blood is given to the chetah to drink, after which it is again blindfolded and is led back to the cart.
If it were not for the length of its limbs, however, the chetah might very well be mistaken for a leopard, for its head and body are colored and marked in much the same way.
When a deer or an antelope is sighted, this hood is taken off, and the chetah is released from its chain.
In India the chetah is often caught and tamed, in order that it may catch game for its master.
But the chetah only creeps up to within about two hundred yards, and then runs them down in fair chase.
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