32 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
remains perfectly quiet and undisturbed, unless when 
hungry or irritated, and passes the greater part of his 
time in listless repose. His roar is nearly similar to 
that of the Lion, and, like his, is by no means to be 
regarded as a symptom of anger, which he announces 
by a short and shrill ery, approaching to a scream. 
Two of these noble animals, the one male and the 
other female, are among the most striking and attractive 
ornaments of the Menagerie. The beautiful male, of 
which our figure offers a characteristic likeness, is a very 
recent importation, having arrived in England in the 
month of April of the present year, in the East India 
Company’s ship Buckinghamshire, to the commander of 
which, Captain Glasspool, we are indebted for the follow- 
ing particulars relative to his birthplace, capture, early 
life, and education. He was taken prisoner in company 
with two other cubs, supposed to be not more than three 
weeks old, on that part of the coast of the peninsula of 
Malacca which is opposite to the island of Penang, and 
is commonly known by the name of the Queda Coast. 
In our present imperfect acquaintance with this part of 
the farther peninsula of Hindoostan, it affords perhaps 
but little ground for surprise that none of these terrible 
animals should have previously reached this quarter of 
the globe from a locality so seldom visited by European 
vessels.. Their existence in its extensive jungles and 
marshy plains has long, however, been notorious; and 
to judge from the specimen now before us, which, 
although barely two years old, already exceeds in size 
the full-grown Asiatic Lion which occupies the neigh- 
bouring den, they must in that situation be at. least as 
formidable as their fellows of the hither peninsula. The 
