CAT KIND. 



escapes with the remainder. If she loses her 

 young entirely, she then becomes desperate, 

 boldly approaches even the towns themselves, 

 and commits incredible slaughter. The tiger 

 expresses its resentment in the same manner 

 with the lion ; it moves the muscles and skin of 

 its face, shows its teeth, and shrieks in the most 

 frightful manner. Its note is very different from 

 that of the lion, being rather a scream than a 

 roar; and the ancients expressed it very well 

 when they said, that, tigrides indomitce raucant 

 rugiuntque leones. 



The skin of these animals is much esteemed 

 all over the East, particularly in China; the 

 Mandarines cover their seats of justice in the 

 public places with it, and convert it into cover- 

 ings for cushions in winter. In Europe, these 

 skins, though but seldom to be met with, are of 

 no great value, those of the panther and the leo- 

 pard being held in much greater estimation. 

 This is all the little benefit we derive from this 

 dreadful animal, of which so many falsehoods 

 have been reported ; as, that its sweat was poi- 

 sonous, and the hair of its whiskers more dan- 

 gerous than an envenomed arrow. But the real 

 mischiefs which the tiger occasions while living 

 are sufficient, without giving imaginary ones to 

 the parts of its body when dead. In fact, the 

 Indians sometimes eat its flesh, and find it nei- 

 ther disagreeable nor unwholesome. 



There is an animal of America which is usu- 

 ally called the Red Tiger, but M. Buffon calls it 

 the Cougar, which, no doubt, is very different 



