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runfiing longitudinally from head to taiL 

 On the belly the hair is white, diverli- 

 fied with black ftripes, fimilar to thofe 

 on the back. The tail h about eighteen 

 inches long, Covered with annular ftripes 

 of black and broWni£h grey, difpofed in 

 alternate order. They are a very fierce 

 and mifchievous animal, frequently ma- 

 king incurfions on the plantations, and 

 carrying away hogs, fheep, &c* nor are 

 the human fpecies fecure from their at- 

 tacks, efpecially at thofe feafons of the 

 year when they have young; at which 

 time they are very daring and ravenous, 

 as the Indians fometimes fatally experi- 

 ence ; feveral inftances of their attack- 

 ing and killing the Natives, even when 

 armed, having happened fince my refi- 

 dence on this coafl: ; tho' a late Writer, 

 in comparing the Tigers of America 

 with thofe of Africa and India, affects 

 to reprefent them as very defpicable ani- 

 mals, in contradiction to what he has 



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