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ger, attacks every living creature without diftinftion t 
its manner of taking its prey is the fame with that 
of the tiger, always by furprize, either lurking in 
thickets, or creeping on its belly till it comes within 
reach : it will alfo climb up trees in purfuit of mon¬ 
kies, and lefier animals - 3 fo that nothing is fecure 
from its attacks : it is an untameable fpecies, always 
retains its fierce, its malevolent afped, and perpe¬ 
tual growl or murmur. 
The antients were well acquainted with thefe ani¬ 
mals ; thefe and the leopards were the Variee, and 
Fardi of the old writers : one fhould think that the 
Romans would have exhaufled the deferts of Africa , 
by the numbers they drew from thence for their 
public fhews : Scaurus exhibited at one time 150 
Fanthers *, Fompey the great 4105 Auguftus 420*; 
probably they thinned the coafts of Mauritania of 
thefe animals, but they ftill fwarm in the Southern 
parts of Guinea . 
Oppian deferibes two fpecies of Panthers; a larger 
fpecies and a fmall one; the firft of which has a 
fliorter tail than the lefier, and may poflibly be this 
kind. 
An animal of this fpecies is found in Buckharia^ 
called there Babr\ is feven feet long*, very deftruc- 
tive to horfes, and even camels : the fkin is fine, 
^nd valued in Ruffia at il. fterlingf, 
Uncia 
* 'Blinii, lib. viii. c. 17. 
t Ritchkoff Orenb. Hopogr. I. 28. In China is a moil beautiful! 
kind, called there Louchu , whofe Ikins fell for lix pounds, Jierling, 
apiece. Muller Ruff. Samlung. III. 549, 608. I muft here obferve, 
that there are, in the Furriers fhops in London^ i kins in moft refpedts 
refembling thofe of the Panther \ which, they have allured me, 
came 
