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Show CHEETAH HUNT IN INDIA i Sport Waa Once Very Popular With English Residents Is Not Rare Beast. i Tho cheetah hunt which tho viceroy vice-roy wltne-asod rocently at Hyderbad reminds ono that cheetah hunting was an oxtremely popular sport with In-' In-' dlan princes In former days, although i tho Initiation of European forms of ' sport has dono much In theso times to rob It of ancient voguo. It was practiced both by Hindu nnd Mohammedan chloftalns over the greater part of India, for tho chcotab . evon now Is not n rare boast, and a, century or so ago must havo been common enough. Anothor animal used In the same way by Indian nobles was a sort of lynx, spoiled variously as "Bhoo goose," "syahgush." Dut this was UBcd much moro rarely than the cheetah. chee-tah. However, It waa not only Indians In-dians who Indulged In tbls form of sport. It was enjoyed and practiced by Europeans as 'well In tho days when . they woro content to nbldo In India for fifteen years at a stretch and I when they lived a l'Indlonno In a way I unknown to modern times. Moro than ! ono of tho Company's nabobs kept their own cheotahs, which wero frequently fre-quently prossnts from friendly chlofs. It may easily bo imagined that cheetah chee-tah hunting was very good sport and welcomed by tho servants of the Company as an excellent substitute for tho oourslng which was fnmllln. to them In England and which, llko i tho cheetah hunt, has vanished bo-I bo-I foro the spread of games suoh as ten nls and golf. Madras Mall. |
