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listed in an English journal, a hundred and forty-eight persons 
in one year, and a hundred and thirty-one in another, were i 
devoured by Tigers in J ava. 
Tiger-hunting holds a high place among the amusements of the 
Indian nabobs and the English officers stationed in Hindostan. || 
This sport is principally followed on Elephants placed in line, 
and on which the hunters ride. When all is ready, at a pre- 
concerted signal, they enter the jungles, beat them in every j 
direction, and compel the Tiger to show itself. Eire-arms then j 
do their work. It often happens that the ferocious Carnivore j 
springs on the flank of an Elephant and tries to seize one of 
the riders. 
Like the Lioness, the Tigress exhibits a most extraordinary 
degree of affection for her young, and will defend them with her 
life against every peril. She conceals them in the same manner 
as the former from the voracity of the male. A litter is generally 
composed of from three to five cubs. 
Whatever may be said to the contrary, the Tiger is capable of 
being trained, and rendered perfectly docile ; it is even susceptible 
of a certain degree of attachment. The one that lived, in 1835, 
in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, had been 
brought from India in a ship on which it had been allowed to 
wander about at large. The confidence it inspired was such that 
the cabin-boys lay between its legs, and slept with their heads on 
its flanks. 
A Tigress which had been brought to England, and which had i 
not shown any signs of a bad disposition on board ship, became 
morose when shut up in the menagerie of the Tower of London. 
Some time after, however, a sailor, one of its late travelling 
companions, came to visit the menagerie, and solicited per- 
mission to enter the den where this Tigress was confined. The 
latter at once recognised him, and testified the greatest pleasure. 
All the day after its friend had departed it lay prostrate with i 
grief. 
Nero had a Tigress, named Phoebe, that he often kept near him 
in his apartments, and which he more than once made the instru- ; 
ment of his brutal vindictive feelings. At the termination of an 
orgie, nothing gratified him so much as to point out to this 
animal some illustrious Patrician that had come under his 
