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These cats, under the influence of a strange 
climate, and in an undomesticated state, may 
perhaps undergo some change of properties and 
habits, by which naturalists, always well pleased 
to enlarge their zoological lists, may be led to 
consider them as an unknown species of tiger. 
To obviate this error, I advertise such gentry 
beforehand, that the animal in question is abso- 
lutely nothing more than the ordinary European 
household cat. 
Of the plants which we had introduced to 
the Radackers, the vine alone had failed. La- 
gediak pointed out to me the spot on which we 
had planted it. It had withered, but not till, 
from the extreme fruitfulness of the soil, its 
tendrils had reached the tops of the highest 
trees. 
I was not surprised that Kadu should have 
married soon after our departure a native of 
the island of Ormed. The girls there are par- 
ticularly handsome, and we had some suspicion 
of an affair of the heart, from the sudden 
change in his previous determination to accom- 
pany us to Russia, which took place imme- 
diately after an excursion he had made with 
