It had seen the horses
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O selvagem compreendeu imediatamente a razão disto: a onça, com os seus instintos carniceiros e a sede voraz de sangue, tinha visto os cavalos e desdenhava o homem, fraca presa para saciá-la.
The savage understood at once the reason for this: the jaguar, with its carnivorous instincts and voracious thirst for blood, had seen the horses and disdained the man — too poor a prey to sate it.
Peri grasps at once why: the jaguar, with its carnivorous instinct and voracious thirst for blood, has seen the horses and disdains the man — too poor a prey to sate it.
A wound to Peri's pride: the beast rates him beneath the horses. This slight is what turns a defensive stand into an active hunt — he will now force the fight the jaguar declined.
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