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ROY A L TYGER. 
He was brought to this country in x8oo, in the W. Pitt, 
East Indiaman, then quite young, and so perfectly tame 
as to be suffered to remain loose on the deck during the 
voyage. He is allowed, by good judges, to be the finest 
marked Tyger ever exhibited ; he still retains a mild dis- 
position, but at the time of feeding, he discovers his natural 
ferocity, and cannot be approached by any person. — -This 
animal, like the lion, requires twelve or fourteen pounds of 
flesh daily. It is impossible for the keeper to show them 
after they have once partook of their prey. 
He is of the same species with that which killed Mr 
Munro, of whose death we have the following account, 
in a letter from a gentleman to his friend at Calcutta, da- 
ted on board the ship, Shaw Ardasier, off Saugur Island ; 
Dec. 23, 1792. 
“ To describe the aweful, horrid, and lamentable ac- 
cident I have been an eye-witness of, is impossible. Yes- 
terday morning, Mr Downey of the Company’s troops, 
Lieut. Pyefinch, poor Mr Munro (son of Sir Hector), and 
myself, went on shore on Saugur Island to shoot deer s 
We saw innumerable tracts of tygers and deer, but still we 
were induced to pursue our sport the whole day. 
About half past three, w r e sat down on the edge of the jun- 
gle, to eat some cold meat sent us from the ship, and had 
just commenced our meal, when Mr Pyefinch and a black 
servant told us, there was a fine deer within six yards of 
us. Mr Downey and myself immediately jumped up to 
take oui* guns • mine was the nearest, and 1 had just laid 
hold of it, when I heard a roar like thunder, and saw an 
immense royal tyger spring on the unfortunate Munro, who 
was sitting down. In a moment his head was in the beast’s 
mouth, and he rushed into the jungle with him, with as 
