The character King in King-shan is not the one representing Court
[Chinese] but [Chinese]. - Read "Wan-sui-Shan" instead of Wan-su-Shan.
XII., p. 380.
Keshikten has nothing to do with Kalchi. (PELLIOT.)
XVIII., p. 398.
THE CHEETA, OR HUNTING LEOPARD.
Cf. Chapters on Hunting Dogs and Cheetas, being an extract from the
"Kitab'u' l-Bazyarah," a treatise on Falconry, by Ibn Kustrajim, an
Arab writer of the Tenth Century. By Lieut.-Colonel D.C. Phillott and Mr.
R.F. Azoo (Journ. and Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Jan., 1907, pp.
47-50):
"The cheeta is the offspring of a lioness, by a leopard that coerces her,
and, for this reason, cheetas are sterile like mules and all other
hybrids. No animal of the same size is as weighty as the cheeta. It is the
most somnolent animal on earth. The best are those that are
'hollow-bellied,' roach backed, and have deep black spots on a dark tawny
ground, the spots on the back being close to each other; that have the eyes
bloodshot, small and narrow; the mouth 'deep and laughing'; broad
foreheads; thick necks; the black line from the eyes long; and the fangs
far apart from each other. The fully mature animal is more useful for
sporting purposes than the cub; and the females are better at hunting than
are the males, and such is the case with all beasts and birds of prey."
See Hippolyte Boussac, Le Guepard dans l'Egypte ancienne (La Nature,
21st March, 1908, pp.
