Hunting antelopes with cheetahs in Agra, India, 1833. The cheetah is chained on a wooden cart pulled by two oxen. The British officer and Indian handlers ride the cart into the antelope territory. The British Army officer Captain Godfrey Charles Mundy took part in Shikar or big-game hunting with the Mahrattas. The Asiatic cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, is now critically endangered. Le chasse aux antelopes moyennant des leopards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Volume 12, Weimar, 1830. A 12-volume encyclopedia for c Captions are provided by our contributors.