Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game.
1There are two distinct species of the leopard in Ceylon-viz., the "chetah," and the "leopard" or "panther."
2The "chetah" is much smaller than the leopard, seldom exceeding seven feet from the nose to the end of tile tail.
3About one-sixth of them were at Chetah and in its vicinity.
4You will find mud either soft or frozen most of the way to Chetah.
5Both leopards and chetahs are frequently caught at Newera Ellia.
6The prisoners at Chetah were laboring on the streets, preparing logs for house-building, or erecting fences.
7Our leave-taking consumed much time and champagne, and it was nearly sunset before we left Chetah.
8We met several carts, one-horse affairs on two wheels, laden with hay for the Chetah market.
9On leaving Chetah we crossed a frozen stream tributary to the Ingodah, and proceeded rapidly over an excellent road.
10The reason was not explained to me, but probably the general configuration of the country is much like that near Chetah.
11On reaching the town we drove to the house of Mr. Pantoukin, a brother of an officer I met at Chetah.
12In Ceylon all leopards are termed "chetahs" which proceeds from the general ignorance of the presence of the two species.
13He arrived in Chetah a month before my visit, and was just opening a stock of goods to trade with the natives.
14Chetah stands on the left bank of the Ingodah, nearly three hundred miles above Stratensk, and is the capital of the Trans-Baikal province.
15Among the prisoners at the time of my journey there was a Colonel Zyklinski confined in prison at a village north of Chetah.
16The country was more open than on the other side of Chetah, and the road had suffered little in the rains and succeeding cold.