TIGERS. Ill 



porary hut near, and remains in it every day, 

 from morning, until sun set. The travellers 

 assemble at this hut, until ten or a dozen are 

 collected together . The Buoyeah then kills a 

 fowl, over which he says a prayer, offering it 

 as a sacrifice to the Deity in behalf of the pre- 

 sent company, that they may not become food 

 for tigers; for which, each person gives him 

 something, according to his circumstances, 

 from the value of a few cowries, [shells] to a 

 rupee. They then travel on with perfect con- 

 fidence, and should any one of them be killed 

 by a tiger, the Buoyeah says that his sins were 

 too great for-the Almighty to admit of any 

 intercession for him. 



The formation of a tiger's fore leg and foot, 

 is so exquisitely contrived for the purpose it is 

 intended to answer; that, I cannot imagine 

 any thing more worthy the contemplation 



the hills, most of them are supposed to become tigers 

 in another world, and to possess the power of charming 

 them in this. 



