“The Snow Leopard”
“There, straight ahead of them, on a gray rock, sat a snow leopard. And what a beauty it was! The cat appeared to be about five feet in length, weighing in the neighborhood of a hundred pounds. Its fur was white with black spots. Black rosettes covered its back and its belly was white. The leopard stared at the monk with its lustrous sky-blue eyes, which were rendered darker at the edges by the black pigmentation of the fur surrounding the eyes. The contrast between the intense blue of the eyes and the bright whiteness of the fur was dramatic.”