44 on the tiger. Sept. 12. 



ready to make its fatal spring ; one of the ladies, witlt 

 anaazing presence of mind, laid hold of an umbrella ; 

 and, unfurling it, directly in the animal's face, it in- 

 stantly retired. Another party had not the same 

 good fortune. A tiger darted among thera while 

 they were at dinner, seized on a gentleman, and car- 

 ried him off in the sight of his companions. One of 

 these, however, had the presence of mind to level his 

 piece at the animal, and fired so fortunately as to kill 

 him. The gentleman who was carried off escaped 

 with a slight mutilation, and is at present alive in 

 Great Britain. 



* The tiger is the most terrible scourge of the counw 

 try wherever he is found. He is not only strong 

 and nimble, but ferocious and cruel to an astonilhing 

 degree. Though satiated with carnage he perpetual- 

 ly thirsts for blood. His restlefs fury has no inter- 

 vals, except when he is obliged to lie in ambufh for 

 prey at the sides of rivers, to which other animal's 

 resort to drink. He seizes and tears to pieces a frefh 

 animal with equal rage as he exerted in devouring 

 the first. He desolates every country that he in- 

 habits, and dreads neither the aspect nor the arms of 

 man. He sacrifices whole flocks of domestic animals, 

 and all the wild beasts which come within the reach 

 of his claws. He attacks the young of the elephant 

 and the rhinoceros, and sometimes even ventures to 

 brave the lion. His predominant instinct is a per- 

 petual rage, a blind and undistinguifliing ferocity, 

 which often impel him to devour his own young, 

 and to tear their mother in pieces when Ihe attempts 

 to d'efeiid them. He delights in blood, and gluts him- 



