BRASILIAN TIGER. 
these animals are not very dangerous 5 at leasfty 
to men ; Buffon concludes with the rest of this 
gentleman's narrative. 
The fiesh of the Jaguar is not c^ood to 
cat. He combats, with advantage, all the 
quadrupeds of the New Continent, Vvhich fxy 
from him with terror. The Ant-Eater, though: 
it has no teeth to defend itself, is the most cruel 
enemy the Jaguars have to encounter. As, 
soon as a Jaguar attacks the Ant-Eater, it lies 
down on it's back and seizes, and suifocates- 
bim .with it's long claws." 
