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any other part of India with Tigers, the moft voracious and de- 

 ftruaive animal of the peninfula. This part was probably 

 famed for the tremendous animal : Seneca dlftinguiflies it in his 

 Oedipus by the epithet Gangetica Tigris. Thofe which fupplied 

 the Roman amphitheatres with the obje(5ts of the fport, were 

 procured from fome part of this great empire, which protluced 

 the largeft and the fierceft. The firft which appeared in the 

 SpeBacula at Rome, were in the time of Augujlus, having been 

 prefented to him by certain arabaffadors from India. Zarma- 

 nuSf or Zarmanochagas, whom I have mentioned before, was 

 one of them, hi the Sunderbunds, the tigers are particularly 

 fatal to the wood-cutteis and falt-makers, who refort there in 

 the dry feafon ; they will not only feize on them in the iilands, 

 but even fwim to the boats at anchor, and fnatch the men from 

 on board. The Pietifts, who annually vitit one particular ifland 

 for the fake of wafliing themfelves in the facred water, often 

 fall vidims to thefe terrible animals : they have fuch power as 

 to carry off a man with the utmoft facility ; they will even 

 go full fpeed with a buffalo, which they will feize out of the 

 field or parture, In my HiJI. fiuad. i. p. 279, I have given a 

 melancholy inllance of their fpringing among a party of gen- 

 tlemen and ladies recreating themfelves on the iilands of the 

 Ganges, and carrying away one of the company ; fuch accidents 

 are not uncommon. Another party in the beginning of this 

 century was more fortunate : the company were feated under 

 the flaade of trees on the banks of a Bcngalefe river; a lady 

 among them obferved a tiger preparing to take its fatal Ipring, 

 and with amazing prefence of mind laid hold of an umbrella, 



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