fierce squealing grunts, which mingled in a horrid manner with the no less savage growlings of the jaguar. The whole, we are assured, made a never-to-be-forgotten scene, and produced a corresponding effect upon the interested observers, who for some reason—perhaps because they were not naturalists—were content, on this occasion, to watch nature without interfering with her. At length the end came. The jaguar, who had for some time been stretched out, clinging to the trunk, made a slip with one hind foot, which for a moment, with the leg, hung down; and a peccary, leaping up at it, inflicted a slight gash. This seemed to determine the jaguar, for getting to its feet on the trunk, with a fierce roar, he took a rapid glance round the ring, and fronting the part where it seemed thinnest, crouched and then leaped suddenly out—a tremendous bound; but he did not succeed in clearing the circle. He fell amongst his enemies, several of whom, with fierce squeals, leaped up at him, and gashed him whilst yet in the air. For a moment it seemed as though he would struggle through; the next he was down, and the herd closed over him like the sea upon a yellow sandbank. From the mêlée came choked roars, and sometimes agonised as well as angry squealings, which, no less than the violent heaving motion above a certain central point, showed that a desperate struggle was still going on. But the jaguar was never seen again—only the wild tide of pigs, straining and struggling against each other, each eager to become a personal agent in the common act of death, the outer ones leaping on the backs of their companions in their anxiety to get within striking distance, whilst, ever and anon, one would appear struggling up from the confused tumbling mass at the centre of action, as though to avoid suffocation or urged by unbearable pain. These had to run down over the rest, and so join the outer circle, so closely were they packed; whilst one that appeared badly wounded was, for some time, tossed about on the unstable platform of its friends’ bodies, whilst lying struggling on its side.