NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP. XVIII. 



A lyger taken in the Camp — Fatal Rencounter of a Party 

 with the Rebels y who killed fever al of the Troops, and 

 forced the refl back — Defcription of a Planter of Surinam 

 — Contagious Dijiempers — Suicide — Scene of primitive 

 Nature, 



I HAVE jiift mentioned that feveral officers kept poultry, 

 numbers of which were now taken away every night 

 by fome unknown marauder; when a Captain Bolts (fuf- 

 pe6ting the coati-mondi, or crabbo-dago) made a trap of 

 an empty wine-cheft, only by fupporting the lid with a 

 ftick fixed to a long cord, into which (having firft fecured 

 all the other poultry) he put a couple of live fowls, , the 

 whole guarded by two negroes at fome diftance. They 

 had not been many hours on their poll, when hearing the 

 fowls fhriek, one negro pulled the rope, and the other 

 ran to fecure the invader by fitting on the lid: when this 

 proved to be actually a young tyger, who would yet have 

 cleared his way by beating againft the box, but that 

 it was immediately fecured by llrong ropes, and drawn 

 along, with the prifoner in it, to the river ; where, being 

 held under water, he w^as drowned, under the mofl vigo- 

 rous efforts, by beating againft the cheft to effe(5l his ef- 

 cape. Captain Bolts ordered the fkin to be taken off, 

 which he kept in remembrance of fo very flrange a cir- 

 cumftance. 



The Count de BufFon afferts, that there are no tygers 



in 



