NOTE 1.–The Cheeta or Hunting-Leopard, still kept for the chase by native
noblemen in India, is an animal very distinct from the true leopard. It is
much more lanky and long-legged than the pure felines, is unable to climb
trees, and has claws only partially retractile. Wood calls it a link
between the feline and canine races. One thousand Cheetas were attached to
Akbar”s hunting establishment; and the chief one, called Semend-Manik, was
carried to the field in a palankin with a kettledrum beaten before him.
Boldensel in the first half of the 14th century speaks of the Cheeta as
habitually used in Cyprus; but, indeed, a hundred years before, these
animals had been constantly employed by the Emperor Frederic II. in Italy,
and accompanied him on all his marches. They were introduced into France
in the latter part of the 15th century, and frequently employed by Lewis
XI., Charles VIII., and Lewis XII. The leopards were kept in a ditch of
the Castle of Amboise, and the name still borne by a gate hard by, _Porte
des Lions_, is supposed to be due to that circumstance. The _Moeurs et
Usages du Moyen Age_ (Lacroix), from which I take the last facts, gives
copy of a print by John Stradanus representing a huntsman with the leopard
on his horse”s crupper, like Kbli”s (supra, Bk. I. ch. lxi.); Frederic
II. used to say of his Cheetas, ‘they knew how to ride.’ This way of
taking the Cheeta to the field had been first employed by the Khalif
Yazid, son of Mowiyah. The Cheeta often appears in the pattern of silk
damasks of the 13th and 14th centuries, both Asiatic and Italian. (_Ayeen
Akbery_, I. 304, etc.; _Boldensel_, in _Canisii Thesaurus_, by _Basnage_,
vol. IV. p. 339; _Kington”s Fred. II._ I. 472, II. 156; _Bochart_,
_Hierozoica_, 797; _Rock”s Catalogue, passim_.)
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