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THE SUMATRAN TIGER. 
4 pomp and circumstance’ remaining; for 
most of the descendants of the Indian em¬ 
perors are either languishing in exile or 
pensioners on the bounty of the English, 
who possess their lands and revenues.” 
‘‘Are there any others of the leopard- 
kind besides those you have mentioned?” 
asked Richard. 
“ There is but one more of importance,— 
the Rimau Dalian, or Sumatran tiger. This 
species was first discovered by Sir Stamford 
Raffles in the forests of Bencoolen, in Su¬ 
matra,—where he procured a young one, 
which was afterwards brought to Europe. 
It is a large animal, about four feet long 
from the nose to the root of the tail, which 
measures about three feet more. Unlike 
most of the cats, its colour is of an ashy 
gray, without any tint of red or yellow, and 
variegated by darker spots and stripes, each 
of which is surrounded and defined by a 
margin of deep velvety black. The tail is 
very long and large, and the limbs stout and 
robust,—especially the feet and toes. Sir 
Stamford Raffles thus describes those which 
Were in his possession :— 
“ ‘ Both specimens, while in a state of 
