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Livingstone mentions that “ the natives observing undiges¬ 
ted vegetable matter in the droppings of man-eaters follow 
up their trails in the certainty of finding them scarcely 
able to move under some tree, and despatch them with 
ease.” When there has been an unusual fall of rain, a water¬ 
melon occurs, in great profusion, on some of the African 
arid plains, and not only the elephant, rhinoceros,‘antelopes 
and mice regard it as a common blessing, but also the 
hyaenas, jackals and lions. But the lion when assisting his 
lioness to bring up their young, is particularly fierce and 
aggressive, and boldly approaches human habitations to 
carry off sheep and goats. It breeds freely in confinement, 
and the lioness goes with young about fifteen to sixteen 
weeks, and produces a litter of from two to six cubs, and 
is a most devoted mother. The cubs are engaging 
little animals, and their tawny skins are spotted over with 
brown, and traces of these spots remain for many years. 
Several Tigers are exhibited in this house, and some of 
them having been trapped when fully grown,these specimens 
are very characteristic examples of this magnificent beast 
of prey. The tiger, Felis tigris, is very widely distributed 
over Asia, as it may be said, in general terms, to extend 
from the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk to the southern 
shores of the Caspian and to the Caucasus, from the Lake 
of Baikhal to Java, from the Sea of Aral to the 
Persian Gulf, and from the Himalaya to Cape Comorin ; 
thus occurring throughout Mongolia, Western Turkestan, 
Persia, Afghanistan, Biluchistan, India, Burma, Siam, 
the Malayan peninsula, and China, and in the island 
of Saghalian at the mouth of the Amur, where the 
winter is almost Arctic, and in the islands of Sumatra, 
Java and Bali within the tropics. But it is absent 
