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THE TIGER. 
mained so long unextirpated. In the northed' 
roads of the enapire, hundreds of travelled 
are to be seen with lanterns carried hefot^ 
them for security against these ravenous 
mals. In Java they are much dreaded, 
they frequently carry off travellers ; heiic^' 
when any person of consequence has occasi®" 
to go into the country, he is attended by 
blowing continually a kind of small FreH^'' 
horn, the shrill sound of which scares aW^^l 
the tigers. 
The tiger is not unsusceptible of the 
kind of generosity which has been obsen'e** 
in the lion. Lieutenant White informs us, d, 
the narrative of his " Voyage to Cochin-chin®' 
that a beautiful female of the royal speci^^’ 
about two years old, nearly three feet big'** 
and five long, was presented to him by 
governor of Saigon. “ In Saigon,” says 
White, “ where dogs are dog-cheap, we ns^® 
to give the tigress one every day. They 
