500 APPfeNDIX. 



Tigers are fed with raw meat, and they are usu- 

 ally allowed four or five pounds weight in the day : 

 they lap about three pints of water. 



The value of a full-grown Tiger, in this country, 

 is from fifty to a hundred pounds. 



THE PORCUPINE*. 



Although Porcupines, in their general manners, 

 are very harmless and inofFensive animals, yet they 

 appear to have no particular attachment to their 

 keeper. They will eat bread or roots out of his 

 hand, or suffer him to lead them about by a string 

 fastened to their collar. One that was in the Tower 

 would even allow its keeper to take it up under his 

 arm : tg do this without wounding himself with its 

 quills, required however considerable dexterity, since 

 it was first necessary to close these to the animal's 

 body, by sweeping his arm along the direction in 

 which tliey grew. 



These animals usually sleep in the day, and be- 

 come awake and active towards evening. Very 

 little food will support them, and they are never 

 known to drink. They gnaw the wood-work of 

 their dens so much, that if there was not much iron 

 about them they would soon escape, even from the 

 strongest places. 



Whenev^er they are irritated or offended they stamp 

 forcibly on the ground with their hind-feet, some- 

 what in the manner of Rabbets. In this act they 



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