In the countries where he resides, and neither the sight 
nor the opposition of man, in whose flesh he is said to de- 
light, have any power to make him desist; when undis- 
turbed, he plunges his head into the body of the animal, 
and drinks large draughts of blood, the sources of which 
are generally exhausted before his thirst is appeased*. 
His muscular strength is so extremely great, that he has 
been known to seize a buffalo, near a thousand pounds 
weight, and carry it off with such seeming ease, as to ap- 
pear scarce an impediment to his flight. 
The Tigress brings forth four or five young at a litter ; 
she is at all times furious, but her rage rises to the ut- 
most extremity, when robbed of her young ; she then 
braves every danger, and pursues her plunderers, even 
to the very gates of buildings, on the edge of the sea, and 
when her hope of recovering them is lost, she expresses 
her agony by bowlings, which excite terror wherever 
they reach, - 
The roar of the Tiger is extremely horrid ; it begins 
by intonations and inflections, at first, deep, melancholy, 
and slow ; presently it becomes more acute, when sud- 
denly collecting himself, he utters a violent cry, which, 
together with the interruption of long tremulous sounds, 
make a distracting impression upon the mind. It is 
chiefly in the night that this is heard, when silence and 
darkness add to the horror, and his roarings are repeated 
by the echoes of the mountains. 
