Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-03

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 ''G One morning Hil heard strange as cry up in the air. look, and what do I see?- whatdo I see yondsr, up on the sky? An eagles BntRhat kind of an eagle? for it appears to me sei much larger than any ea- gle ! have ever met with before. And as Talked them, my men exclaimed: It is a guanionien; the leopard of the air; the bird that feeds on gazelles.g goats, and mon- keysi the bird that is 3 the most difficult of anYto find and kill, Yes .s said Querlao- 4en; n my younger days l remember that my wife and myself were'on our plan- tation, with some of -Four slaves, and one day we heard the cries of baby, and saw these aguahioniens. The baby had been laid oR'si1e ground, and the aguanionien, whose teyesI never miss any thing, and which had not been noticed soaring above 0ur heads bounced on it's prey, and then laughed at us as he rose and flew to dis tant part of the forest.' Then Querlaoen Showed Asia fetich partly made of two huge I6lRRS of this bird.s What tremen. deusthings those talons were! How deep they oould go into the heshl 1545 ! The people were afraid of them, and were compelled to be very careful of their beDdes. These grand eagles do not feed oA fY@R; they are. too small game for them. Monkeys are what they like best; they can watch them as they float over the tops of the trees of the forest, but some. times the monkeys get the better of them.
 People had better not try to get hold of the guanionen's young, if they want to keep 4heir aight, said Gambo, for as sure a6we1i live, the old bird will bounce upon the man that touches it's young
 For long time had heard the peo- pie talking of the guaniouian, but had never yet had glimpse of one.
 "Now, looking up again, saw several of @lemIt 2HoW high they .werel At times they would appear to be quite still in the air; at other times they would soar. They Wefeso hlgh that do not see how they could possibly see the, trees; everything ? must be in haze to them; monkeys, of course. could not be seen. They were no doubt, amusing themselves, and wonder if they tried to see how near they could go to the sun. Some, at times, flew so high that lost sight of them. i. .s = In the afternoon, I thought I would ramble round. I took double -barreled smooth-bore gun, and loaded one side with bullet, in case should see large game; the other barrel loaded with shot No. Q. InenI carefully plunged into the woods -sill reached the banks of little stream, and there heard the cry of the mondi (Cotobus Sdadnus), which is one of the lar gest monkeys of these forests. From their shrill cries, I thought there must be at least half dozen together. was indeed glad that I had one barrel loaded with big shot. If the mondis were not too far of, would be able to get fair shot, and kill one. ita
 "I advanced very cautiously until I got quite near them. II could see their big bodies, long tails, and long, jet-black, shi- ming hair. What handsome beasts they were! what 8 nice looking huff their skins would make! I thought. ,a-,.a, s.i1s '
 sJl1st as J was considering which of tAcm would fire at, saw some big thinR,i D like huge shadow, suddenly come down, upon the tree. Then heard the Tapping of heavy wings, and also the death cry of &poor riondi. Then saw a. huge bird, with a breast spotted somewhat like leop- ardSaraise itsell ss6Wiy into the air. carry ang themonkey in it's powerful, finger ikstalons The claws of one leg were fast iuthe upper part of the -monkey-so deep were they in the flesh that they were apA4AARARgG4I blood fell upon the leaves below. The other lee had it's claws quite deep in the baokRof the monkey Fhe left leg was kapt higher than the right, and could see that the great strength of the bird was ! used at that time to keep the neck and al-1 80 the back of the victim from moving. sThe bird rose higher and higher the mon keys tail swayed to and fro, and then both disappeared. It was guaionien. Its prey yaWas no doubt taken to some big and . lowering tree where it could be devoured. .55as The natives say that the first thing the khaionien- does Is to take out the eyes of the monkeys they catch. 7 But there must bea& fearful struggle, for these mondis are powerful beasts and do not die at the ca. gleta will s The must be a great trial of strength; for if the monkey is not seized s'atah, exact placeDon the ueck, he can turn his head, and he then inficts a fearful bite pnthe breast of the eagle, or on his neck or leg, which disabIes hls most terrible en.l emy, and then. both falling,. they meet. their death. =
 "I looked on without firing. The mon. keys seemed paralyzed with fear when the 1segle came dNHn upon them. and did not &aos6 antiiA Aaftefefhesbfrd of prey had ta- ken one of their number and then de-. camped. When I looked for them, they had fled for parts unknown to me in the forest. I was looking 90 intently at the eagle and it's prey that for while I had forgotten the months. do not wonder. as it. for monkeys I could see often, but it p pAnly once in great while thatasnch . ae<pe ss1 vitneNed eouid be seen by yman. It was grand; and wondered not that the natives callthe guanionien the leopard of air. As write these lines, though several years have passed away, see still before me that big, powerful bird carrying it's prey to some unknown partsof the forest,'"'