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feet, it is more like the grunt of a hog, though twenty 

 times louder, and certainly one of the most tremen- 

 dous animal noises one can imagine." 



The tiger is readily tamed when taken young, 

 but its temper may be said to be scarcely so much 

 depended upon as that of the lion. Keepers enter 

 the cage and caress them, but they never venture 

 upon those annoying liberties which are generally so 

 freely taken with the lion ; and strangers, I believe, 

 have never attempted to venture within their reach. 

 jit may also be remarked, that there is only one in- 

 stance upon record where the tiger allowed a dog to 

 become an inmate cf his den. With the lion it is 

 ] frequent, and great affection is displayed. On the 

 contrary, however, the Indians appear to have great 

 power in the management of the Tiger, and it is 

 ^.more frequently seen tame in that country than an 

 of the other Felince. The tame tigers of the Fakirs 

 exhibit great gentleness and confidence, which may 

 in part be attributed to the ample way in which they 

 are fed, and a singular instance of great control over 

 their temper is related in Griffith's Animal King- 

 dom 



" A full-grown Tiger was lately in the possession 

 'of some natives of Madras, who exhibited it held 

 merely by a chain : it was indeed kept muzzled, ex- 

 cept when allowed, (which was occasionally done) to 

 make an attack upon some animal, in order to exhibit 

 the mode of its manoeuvring in quest of prey. For 



