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THE LIVING WORLD. 
inferior to the African lion, and hence the disputes about the relative claims 
of the lion and the tiger arise from taking a partial case. The tiger has been 
so often exhibited in menageries, and is so constant a member of zoological 
gardens, that it is wholly unnecessary to dwell upon its beautiful coloring or 
general appearance. In passing, however, it may be well to challenge the 
attention to the wonderful suitableness of the tiger’s coloring for concealment 
in the jungle. The noiselessness of its tread, and the crouching in which it 
indulges when it wishes to escape observation, are further evidences of its having 
been provided with facilities and instincts suitable for the life appointed to it. 
The natives cap¬ 
ture the tiger by the 
use of prauss, a kind 
of bird-lime. The 
tiger , in approaching 
the bait, has to walk 
over leaves which 
have been liberally 
sprinkled with prauss , 
and as the leaves 
stick to his feet, the 
tiger becomes more 
and more impotent. 
Lying down in his 
rage, he becomes yet 
more dressed in this 
shirt of Nessus, until 
finally he is at the 
mercy of the hunter. 
Another device is the 
bow-and-arrow trap, 
so arranged that the 
tiger , in seizing the 
bait, shoots himself 
fatally. 
When the native 
hunters make a game 
ROME UNDER NERO. FEEDING CHRISTIANS TO THE EIONS. drive it will UOt 
unfrequently happen 
that enclosed within their circle will be several tigers , and these will charge 
most viciously at the human fence, sometimes escaping by killing those who 
stand in their way, sometimes succeeding in leaping over their heads, sometimes 
falling before a shower of spears, and at other times driven back in surly rage 
before the tempest of weapons. Many of the savage rulers from time to time 
dispatch their armies to hunt in the most approved martial order. Tigers have 
learned that this soldiery is somewhat timid in its enforced obedience, and not 
unfrequently they will jump over the heads of the vanguard, and clear them¬ 
selves a path to safety. 
A tigress charged upon the elephant and hunter and ran them off several 
times. Having fired into her ambush the hunter supposed her to be dead, but 
