BRASILIAN TIGER. 
and vivacity, that he runs before a single dog. 
He is neither nimble nor adlive, except when 
he is pressed by hunger. The savages, who 
are naturally poltroons, are afraid to encounter 
him. They alledge, that he prefers them to 
the Europeans, whom he never attacks. The 
Leopard is likewise said to prefer the Blacks 
to the Whites, whom he is supposed to disthi- 
guish by the smell, and selects them during ihe 
night as well as by day. Almost all the au- 
thors who have written the history of the 
New V/ orld mention this animal : some, under 
the name of the Tiger, or Leopard ; others, 
under the names given to them in Brasil, Mex- 
ico, &c." Buffon adds, that it is found in all 
the regions of South America. It is, however, 
more rare in Cayenne than the Couguar, which 
is called the Red Tiger; and the Jaguar is not 
now so common in Brasil, which is it's native 
country, as formerly. A price has been set 
on it's head ; numbers of this species have ac- 
cordingly been destroyed, and tiie rest have 
' retired from ihc coasts into the mostdesart parts 
of the country. He seems to think, that an 
anin:jal wlilch he has also iigured, from a draw- 
