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and cloudy ; the Combay that had left him and his Son, at length came with 

 many more, calling Fringi, the term tbey have for Europe men and Franks ; 

 the Boy was walking about fearing to venture within reach, till at last laying 

 aside his well-advised suspicion, he approaching, found the Terror of the 

 Wood slain. 



" Disrobed of its Royal Hide, two Bones of the bigness and Figure of a Leva- 

 tor presented themselves to our view, that had no connection with the other 

 Bones, but wholly immersed in the Flesh, in the ends of each Pectoral, and 

 the three circumducing Muscles, towards the joining of the Shoulder-blades, 

 and the upper Bones of the Fore-feet, comrronly called Shoulder-bones ; of 

 these there goes a story handed by tradition, as that licking the Right 

 Shoulder it appeases Hunger, the Left it whets it where these Bones lie ; but- 

 probably enough it is, that Nature added these for its greater strength ; the 

 Entrails were little variable, but the Heart was mighty, and the Liver (they 

 say) had as many Lobes as that was years old, which were six and-an-half , 

 like to a Foxes." 



The chief commended the lad for his courage, and according to custom? 

 plucked off his over-coat of Venetian cloth of silk and silver and gave it to 

 him. We are then provided with some curious information about the tiger, 

 ' It is memorable what is attested, by these Woodmen, of the Tigre, that when 

 he intends to prey on the Monkies, he uses this Artifice or Stratagem ; the 

 Monkies at his first approach give warning by their confused chattering, and 

 immediately betake themselves to the highest and smallest Twigs of tlie Trees 

 when the Tigre seeing them out of his reach, and sensible of their Fright, lies 

 constant under the Tree, and then falls a Roaring, at wbicli they trembling 

 let go their hold, and tumbling down, he at leisure picks them up to satisfy 

 his Hunger ; they are his accustomed Repast, seldom making Man his Meal, 

 and they are judged (as St. Paul's Barbaiians did him) guilty of some Horrid 

 Crime that such vengeance overtakes ; the Woods and Mountains yielding 

 variety of other Food. The Tigre is dull-scented, and not long Nimble, Three 

 Leaps tiring him, otherwise it's probable he would make more havock than 

 he does. The She brings forth but once in Twelve Years, and then but a 

 single Cub ; thus has Providence suppressed the growth of this Masterless 

 Creature ; besides, if the proverb be true, the Bitch brings forth buC once in 

 her Life, or very rarely more, notwithstanding CElian says otherwise in his 

 4 lib de Historia Anxmalium. Panthers were more common than tigers, and 

 apes were plentiful, but the natives considered it " Piacular " to kill these, 

 calling them Half Men, and saying that once they weie Men, but for their 

 laziness had Tails given them and hair to cover them. Which agrees with 

 the theory of the latest Professor on the subject. The Indian tigers, we are 

 told, was the fiercest in the world, but the Lion was feeble and cowardly. 



The next year Fryer sailed up the Persian Gulf to Gombroon or Bunder 

 Abbas, and travelled up to Ispahan, the capital. The Emperor kept a varied 

 collection of wild animods, and here Fryer first saw the rhinoceros ; " a, cruel 



