18 THE ROYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. 



By the Southals and Hill people atout Bhaugulpore, 

 Tiit ; — by some, Pulung; — in Groruckpore he is known 

 as Nungya-char. In the Tamnl and Telogoo tongues 

 he is Pali-Eeddapuli ; — in Malabar, Parampuli ; — by 

 the Canarese, Huli. In Thibet, he is Tagh ; in the 

 Lepcha country,'Sahtong ; — in Bhotanese he is Tukt ; 

 in Burmese, Kya ; in Chinese, Lau-chu, or Lau-hu. 

 The common name for tiger in Bengal, Oude, and 

 the North-west is Bagh, or Sher. The lion being 

 known as Bubher Sher, or Untiahbagh, i.e., camel- 

 coloured tiger. 



The tiger was known to the ancients — he is the 

 tigris TiypLs of Latin and Greek authors. There 

 is no doubt he figured in the Colosseum and other 

 amphitheatres. Pliny, in his " Natural History," 

 says, "The tiger is produced in Hyrcania and 

 India;" and he alludes to its tremendous swiftness 

 and fondness for its young. Hesaya that' Augustus 

 was the first who showed a tigress in Eome, at the 

 dedication of the Theatre of Marcellus; that the 

 Emperor Claudius showed four tigers ; and Suetonius 

 speaks of tigers^ exhibited by Augustus. It was 

 said by Dion that the Ttypets first seen by the 

 Eomans and Greeks -were sent by the Indians, when 

 they were sueing for peace from Augustus. The 

 Emperor Philip, on one occasion, exhibited ten 

 tigers, along with elephants, lions, and other wild 

 beasts. Gordian, Antoninus, Elagabalus, and Aure- 

 lian also exhibited tigers, in the circensian games, 

 or in triumphal processions. 



