In a few minutes the two were bearing out--none too soon, for those pumas crowded up once or twice within a fathom of their deck, devilish and devouring.
He had tamed moose, and young mountain lions, and a catamount, and had had mad hours with pumas and arctic bears; and he could understand how even he might easily pass from M.
Upon the shore glared the stone of the vanished City of Ys in the warm sun, and the fierce pumas trod their grumbling way.
The boat ran in lightly between the steep dark shore and the comb of reef that looked like a host of stealthy pumascrumbling the water.
The fatal wrangle of the pumas there below, the sound of it, would be in his ears for ever, but he had come above it; the searching vigour of the sun entered into his bones.
As in a dream, he could hear the breakers--the pumas on their tread-mill of death.
Then we white men saddled our horses, the Indians loaded our pack mares, and off we started all alone to see the terrible king, who kept pet pumas and snakes, tame witches and medicine men.
The former had commenced to sing, the latter had grown unusually active; guanacos had been in search of tender herbage, pumas had been in search of the guanacos.
Pumas and lynxes attack and kill mountain sheep; and the golden eagle is very partial to mountain sheep lambs and mountain goat kids.
In the Yellowstone Park the pumas multiplied to such an extent and killed so many young elk that their number had to be systematically reduced.
The grizzly bear is so thoroughly gone that one is seen only by a rare accident; but black bears and pumasare sufficiently numerous to afford fair sport, provided the hunter has a fine outfit of dogs, horses and guides.
Sheep, big-horn next species to become extinct killed by pumas in Colorado present status of in Lower California in Glacier Park domestic curse of cattle and game opposition from owners of.
There may be in the puma an inborn jealousy of dogs, as a race more favoured than pumas by the man whom yet they love perhaps more passionately.
Bears and ounces, pumas and tiger-cats crossed our path; and stags started from their thickets, where they had sought shelter from some of those above-named enemies.
Among the lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars andpumas of the New York Zoological Park, there has been but one murder.
Racoons, red foxes, wolves, and pumas frequented the bush country and the chumps of forest.
The coyotes knew him and feared him; the deer knew him and trembled at his very name; the pumas knew him and both feared and hated him.
Pumas passed snarling and growling angrily, first at us, and then over their shoulders at the smoke that rolled behind.
Perhaps the simplest way of taking the pumas is to throw a lazo over them, as directly they feel the noose they lie down as if dead, and are easily despatched.
We formed another hunt, in which numerous ostriches and several pumas were killed.
But some of the animals must have remained behind, as, out on the lower slope of the downs, two pumas were chased and killed.
These, however, are only made from pumas of large size, and they wear out very quickly.
A million pumas and their skins are not worth the life of my friend.
We know that there is a hereditary feud between the pumas and the bears, and that when they come together there's apt to be trouble.
Biddell had driven the two pumas back through the door which led from the open cage to the room which served them for a den, and closed the door on them.
The pumas had quietly passed through, and emerged again into their cage by the farther entrance.
With a sharp command he rushed to drive the pumas back and close the gate.
And this he did, though of course not at top speed, the pumas not being a race of long-winded runners like the wolves.
As we stood looking at the monstrous thing one of its long, horny branches crept toward us, and one of the pumas sprang forward to bite it.
Yes; a few years ago, I took my two pumas and went to the cave for a certain purpose.
We both fired, and the pumas rolled over, struggling in the agonies of death.
I remarked, as at that instant I observed two large pumasstealing along the top of an overhanging rock.
He maintained himself chiefly by keeping a large flock of goats, which lived secure from jaguars and pumas among the rugged rocks.
I once spent several weeks with a surveying party in a district where pumas were very abundant, and saw not less than half a dozen deer every day, freshly killed in most cases, and all with dislocated necks.
But as soon as these wild regions are settled by man the pumas are exterminated, and the sole remaining foe of the vizcacha is the fox, comparatively an insignificant one.
In Patagonia a sheep-farming Scotchman, with whom I spent some days, showed me the skulls of five pumas which he had shot in the vicinity of his ranche.
As a fact wherever pumas abound the wild horse of the present time, introduced from Europe, can hardly maintain its existence.
At the time of my visit there jaguars and pumas were very abundant and extremely destructive to the cattle and horses.
By thus "baiting" a certain place and drawing the Pumas thither, the way is paved for their most certain destruction.
In infancy the young pumas possess decided tiger-like markings, and leopard-like spots, but these disappear altogether as the animal increases in size.
Any carcass left in a neighborhood where Pumas are known to exist is sure to attract them, and day after day its bulk will be found to decrease until the bones only remain.
It was now the heat of the day, however, and the hairy inhabitants of this sylvan wilderness were all sound asleep, jaguars and pumas among the trees, and the tapirs in small herds wherever the jungle was densest.
Hand to claw this man had fought pumas and jaguars, and slain them, armed only with his two-edged knife.
The soldiers reported what they had seen to their commander, who could not but pardon a woman who had been so singularly protected, without the danger of appearing more inhuman than pumas themselves.
Only they're American lions and tigers--pumas and jaguars, and pumas without any manes, and jaguars with spots instead of stripes.
But I mean the pumas or jaguars that seem to have here and there turned the cells into caves, and left their gnawed bones about.
Seeing or not seeing pumasis purely a matter of luck, and the tales concerning pumas having attacked men, which abound in the country, are generally fabrications.
Pumas often stampeded our horses and left plain tracks near the camp, but in spite of this they killed no animal, not even a dog, belonging to us.
The destruction wrought by pumas upon flocks of sheep is immense.
A certain amount of game lived in the valley, huemules, guanacos, pumas and Cordillera wolves.
In a forest near Lake Argentino, one moonlight night, two pumas circled round our camp, and for upwards of half an hour kept uttering their peculiar cry.
Cases are reported of pumas attacking horses, but no instance of this came under my own notice.
At Bahia Camerones, on the farm of Mr. Greenshields, fourteen pumas were killed during the winter of 1900.
One moonlight night, in a forest by Lake Argentino, a couple of pumas came out of the dark and began to walk round and round the camp, and continued to do so for more than an hour, all the time keeping up their peculiar cry.
Authentic instances of pumas having attacked man are few; but some have certainly occurred.
They must be either pumas or jaguars, which are always called here lions and tigers, and I have no doubt Dias will know by the roar which it is.
Both pumasand tigers kill the little beasts when they come across stragglers.
In some parts of the mountains pumas and jaguars abound.
They killed two tapirs and several pumas and jaguars.
No; pumas are not marked like that, and do not make the sounds we heard.
I always thought," the latter said, "that pumas were such bloodthirsty animals.
It has been said of pumas that, with the possible exception of some kinds of monkeys, they are the most playful animals in existence.
At about nine o'clock, on a bright moonlight night, he saw four pumas coming toward him, two adult animals and two young ones.
Lions, panthers, and pumas dress themselves very much as the domestic cat performs her toilette.
At first I thought of telling her to run back to the hut; but then it flashed across me that the pumas might see her and follow.
The pumas had not till then discovered us, so eagerly had they been watching the monkeys.
Meantime I raised my gun, to be ready to fire should the pumas threaten to attack us or persist in following our pets.
I shall have by-and-by to recount another adventure with pumas of a far more terrific character; so will say no more about them at present, except that we found the flesh very white, and much like veal.
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