I'm caged up here, just as much as thepuma is caged down below, and I can hear him raging about.
I gave a great cry at that, because it seemed almost a certain thing that the puma would upset the lamp, and then I knew the log-cabin would be in a blaze.
When I said there was a puma inside our house they all whistled.
My legs shook under me as I ran, and I imagined a puma behind every bush.
The natives of Chili, we were told, often catch the puma with the lasso.
It was now getting late in the day, so after we had marked the place where the dead puma lay, we agreed that we would return to the bottom of the valley and try and find our companions.
Just below where thepuma was crouching down ready to make his fatal spring, lay the form of the old seaman; but whether he was dead, or asleep, or fainting, we could not tell.
He gave stab after stab, and prevented the puma from fixing its jaws on his own throat, which seemed the aim of the enraged animal.
The pumahad actually begun his spring when we fired.
We came up at the same moment, barely in time to save Surley from some severe handling, for the puma had turned all his fury on him.
The shepherd heard two outside the corral on one occasion, and giving chase the puma ascended a small tree.
The cheerful news also awaited me that my horse was missing, and that Graviel and El Cooke had seen a large puma on the river bank, which had probably watched in close proximity to us whilst sleeping the night before.
The inveterate destroyers of these birds are, besides their human enemies, the puma and foxes, the former of which will surprise and kill the sitting bird, which he carefully hides, and then proceeds to eat the eggs with great gusto.
Puma have been killed in the neighbourhood of one of the sheep stations.
But as he was convinced that thepuma was close at hand waiting for an opportunity to attack, he spent several hours on the watch with his revolver ready.
The meat of the puma resembles pork, and is good eating, though better boiled than roasted, but one or two Indians of my acquaintance would not touch the meat.
To kill a puma with a gun is rather a difficult matter, as, unless the ball enters his skull, or strikes near the region of the heart, he has as many lives as his relation the cat.
On arriving at the cliff, a seaman observed his tracks on the soft clay of the shelving brow, and soon proclaimed his discovery of the puma in a hole or small cave just below, by the exclamation of 'There he is!
Whilst we were beating a rough bit of ground, to our utter amazement and delight our friend the puma jumped out of a bush; but the first surprise was so great, that the opportunity of giving him a long shot was lost.
And he turned away toward the door, wondering why Puma did not follow.
So, although Puma ate and drank and danced with apparent abandon, and flashed his dazzling smile over everybody and everything, his mind, when not occupied by Alonzo D.
He would hide himself in a thicket, and when the monkey came down to drink--and come he must--the puma would spring out and seize him.
The men thanked him heartily, let him pass on, and the puma followed behind him.
When the puma saw what had happened, he turned in a great hurry to leave the house, but before he could do so, he saw the shepherd coming, and hastily lay down again.
One day the puma invited his friend the stag to go with him and see a comrade, who was famous for the good milk he got from his cows.
The monkey knew that the puma was not so good-natured for nothing, but he felt quite able to take care of himself, so he said he should have much pleasure in accompanying his friend.
They look very good,' observed the puma with a longing glance, 'and I am sure you must be hungry, friend stag?
The monkey waited till the puma had got to the middle, then he gave a great spring and jumped on his back, knowing quite well that the puma would be afraid to shake him off, lest he should be swept away into deep water.
But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, waited until the puma drew near, and with a violent kick upset the bowl all over the puma himself.
The monkey did not answer, but silently pointed to the puma who was pretending to be asleep.
By-and-by the puma saw a small snake with a beautiful shining skin, lying coiled up at the foot of a tree.
I hope your industry will be rewarded as it deserves,' said the puma as he passed along; and the men were pleased, and offered him some of their maize to eat.
But the puma easily saw through these excuses, and laughed at him.
I had two green parrots, a monkey, and a terrapin; and once Tasso brought me a tiny baby puma from the forest.
As long as I did not move the puma remained motionless also, and thus we stood some fifteen yards apart, eying each other curiously.
From this I infer that the flight of my puma must have been owing more to the windmill-like motion of my arms than to my voice.
As I rose the slope of an uneven piece of ground, I saw a large puma (Felis concolor) advancing along the other side of the rise towards me, with its nose down on the ground.
Ellen told us that she and Maria had been greatly alarmed during our absence by the appearance of a large creature--from their account a puma or a jaguar--which had come close to the hut.
As I turned my head for an instant, intending to seize it, I saw another puma stealthily approaching.
They then, running up to where the puma lay, quickly despatched it with their spears; while John and I lifted up Arthur and carried him to the side of the fire.
A puma has carried off one of the hogs," said John, who appeared with his gun ready for action.
Just then John's rifle echoed through the forest: the puma which had seized Arthur sprang up in the air, and then down it fell, its claws only a few inches from Arthur's body.
The puma stopped just as I fancied it was about to spring at me, and turning round, bounded into the forest.
The puma (Leopardus concolor) will seldom face a man when encountered boldly.
Isoro and the Indians led the way, tracing the puma by the blood which their keen sight discovered on the ground.
The next day he was there again with the chair and the puma skin; read his book and looked at the sea with the same constancy; and though there was no child to be picked up, I observed him to attend repeatedly on a sick woman.
And the next morning I saw him on the forward deck, sitting in a chair, a book in his hand, a shabby puma skin rug about his knees: the picture of respectable decay.
The footsteps of the puma were to be seen almost everywhere on the banks of the river; and the remains of several guanacos, with their necks dislocated and bones broken, showed how they had met their death.
It is asserted that if a puma has once been betrayed by thus watching the carcass, and has then been hunted, it never resumes this habit; but that having gorged itself, it wanders far away.
The pumais described as being very crafty: when pursued, it often returns on its former track, and then suddenly making a spring on one side, waits there till the dogs have passed by.
In La Plata the puma preys chiefly on deer, ostriches, bizcacha, and other small quadrupeds; it there seldom attacks cattle or horses, and most rarely man.
If the condors glide down, and then suddenly all rise together, the Chileno knows that it is the puma which, watching the carcass, has sprung out to drive away the robbers.
On some occasions I am sure that they do this only for pleasure, but on others, the Chileno countryman tells you that they are watching a dying animal, or the puma devouring its prey.
A shot from one of the party was heard, on which the puma was seen to leap to the ground and bound off with such velocity as to show that he was very unwilling to stand our fire longer.
I must now tell you something about thepuma or American lion, which is also taken in a very ingenious manner by the natives of South America.
On raising his eyes to the spot whence the sound proceeded, he discovered a large pumacouching on the branch of a tree, and under him the body of his friend.
After wandering about the country for a long time, she sought shelter in a cavern; but she had scarcely entered it, when she became dreadfully alarmed, on observing a puma occupying the same den.
When wounded the pumagrows furious and irresistible.
As soon as the puma saw the soldiers, she retired to some distance and they unbound Maldonata, who related to them the history of this puma, whom she knew to be the same she had formerly relieved in the cavern.
Also about the Puma or American Lion, and introduces some Hunting Scenes in North and South America, with other Interesting and Entertaining Adventures.
Hither also the puma follows its prey, and there are several other creatures of the feline tribe.
Unlike the jaguar, which is among the most noisy of beasts of prey, the puma seldom utters any sound, even when wounded, but silently takes its way, its presence only known as it makes the fatal spring on its victim.
The puma also makes its way from one end of the country to the other; but though destructive to cattle, it is said here, as elsewhere, to fly from the face of man.
The puma wanders across the plains of Patagonia, and ravages the flocks of the settlers on the western prairies of the United States.
In the Amazonian forests the puma is not so common as the jaguar.
They are followed, as elsewhere, by packs of wolves and foxes or wild dogs; while the puma makes himself at home here, as he does in Southern America.
The puma ranges throughout the country, as he does much further south; while the jaguar also appears amid the forests and plains.
This habit frequently causes its destruction, for the condors, attracted by the carcass, assemble from far and near to their expected feast, when the pumasprings out to drive them off.
Both Mr. Hudson and Admiral Kennedy seem agreed that the pumais a very dangerous enemy to the guanaco, and a scourge to everything living upon the Pampas, except man and the gama (C.
The puma is, according to the same authority, a persistent persecutor of the jaguar.
As the men sprang up from where they were lying asleep they saw a large pumarun off out of the firelight into the darkness.
The puma Colonel Rondon had found to be as cowardly as I have always found it, but the jaguar was a formidable beast, which occasionally turned man- eater, and often charged savagely when brought to bay.
Thereupon Doctor Moreno showed me a scar on his face, and told me that he had himself been attacked and badly mauled by a puma which was undoubtedly trying to prey on him; that is, which had started on a career as a man-eater.
There was one black jaguar-skin; melanism is much more common among jaguars than pumas, although once Miller saw a black puma that had been killed by Indians.
The puma crouched, lashed her tail and with bared claws glared at me with terrible hatred in her green eyes.
There was a swift dash, more like the passage of a streak of light than the moving of a living thing, and then I knew that the puma had fooled me once more.
And then later on I said to myself again: "'Olaf, you must end the puma or the puma will end you, my friend.
That bane why I skoll never hear the cry of the puma or a cry that bane lake him without feeling the big fear," he concluded.
A dozen times a day and as many at night I would think I was at last to put an end to the almost unbearable situation, and every time that puma fooled me.
I lay long awake revolving all sorts of schemes to catch the puma napping, and I was still planning when I fell asleep.
After some time devoted to this fruitless quest of vengeance, I began to see the killing of this puma as a fixed purpose.
But quick as I was in raising my rifle, the puma was quicker of movement than I.
With a mighty bound the pumaflung herself against the door.
When the puma shrieked and howled, I shrieked and howled, too.
And there was I, weaponless, powerless, and face to face with a mother puma mad to regain possession of her little ones.
With the same uncanny instinct that had taught her how to keep out of my reach, the puma avoided the poisoned meat.
These fellows think as little of a puma or a jaguar as they do of a jackal.
It is the puma and jaguar about to battle for the body of your horse, friend Tiburcio, and whichever one is conquered may take a fancy to revenge himself on us.
Now and then the bellowing of a bull denoted the uneasiness of the animal--perhaps from the presence of those terrible night robbers, the puma and jaguar.
What amazed Bess Harley was the fact that Nan stood so long by the clump of brush which hid the rock on which the puma crouched from Bess's eyes.
The adventure with the big puma really had made Nan feel as though she should know how to use a gun.
The huge puma on the rock glared at her, flexed his shoulder muscles, and opening his red mouth, spit just like the great cat he was.
That puma skin doesn't look like a dream," said Walter, laughing and pointing to the pelt of the beast which hung from Rhoda's saddle and made all the ponies nervous.
She would occasionally run to the dead puma and try to toss it; but she did not much like the near approach of human beings, either.
I could see the puma spring, and my poor cousin fall beneath the blow--then the death struggle began.
The Gaucho whipped the puma out of his skin in less than a minute, and off we started for home.
The puma smelt us, then rubbed his great head against his master's leg, and trotted along by his side.
Ah, I never sleep so soundly now as I used to then beneath the stars, fanned by the night breeze; and although the dews lay heavy on our robes in the morning, we awoke as fresh as the daisies and as happy as puma cubs that only wake to play.
At this moment a huge puma came bounding along the path, but stopped when he saw us.
Underneath the picture was printed, 'The Puma springs from ledges down upon its unsuspecting prey.
Jerry, realizing that there was nothing else to do, said in as indifferent a tone as he could, "I reckon there may be a mountain lion or so up here, and a puma perhaps.
The habits of the Puma are somewhat peculiar; when attacked, he climbs the nearest tree for safety, and there is generally shot by his hunters.
The Puma flies from the sight of man, and seldom attacks any animal larger than a sheep; but when he can surprise a flock of sheep, he kills as many as he can, only sucking the blood of each.
In former times thePuma inhabited nearly the whole American continent, from Canada to Patagonia, but it is now extirpated in many places, especially in North America.
