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twelve or fourteen feet in length, and about 

 five in breadth, with both ends open, and two 

 doors, one at each end ; which are elevated 

 by levers on the top, and kept suspended by 

 an iron rod passing over the end of them, 

 which rod communicates by a tongue with a 

 board on the inside at the bottom of the box. 

 A kid or goat is fastened in the middle of the 

 box, and when the tiger seizes it, and steps 

 on the board, he disengages the tongue from 

 the iron rod, which flies up, allowing the 

 doors to fall down through groves so strong- 

 ly made that he cannot force them open, so 

 that he is caught. 



The traps are sometimes made with only 

 one door, and an open grating at the other 

 end. Another kind is made by driving stakes 

 into the ground and fastening bamboos to the 

 top of them, with doors similar to those alrea- 

 dy described, and which are let fall much in 

 the same way; they are made considerably 

 larger, and are immoveable ; covered all over 

 with green bushes, and so well hidden, as not 

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