are like those of the sycamore, and are common in most underwoods, as they form the larger part of most jungles in the north of India. These leaves are then smeared with a species of bird-lime, made by bruising the berries of an indigenous tree, by no means scarce; they are then strewed with the gluten uppermost near to that shaded spot to which it is understood the tiger resorts during the noontide heats. If, by chance, the animal should tread on one of these smeared leaves, his fate is considered as decided. He commences by shaking his paw, to remove the incumbrance; but finding no relief from that expedient, he rubs the nuisance against his face, by which means his eyes, ears, &c. become smeared over with the gummy matter, which occasions such uneasiness as causes him to roll, perhaps, among many more of the smeared leaves, till at length he becomes completely enveloped, and is deprived of sight, In this situation he may be compared to a man who has been tarred and feathered. The anxiety produced by this strange and novel predicament soon discovers itself in dreadful howlings, which serve to call the watchful peasants, who in this state find no difficulty in shooting the mottled object of detestation." Horses have such a dread of this creature, that they can scarcely ever be brought to face him; hunting him, therefore, on horseback is a service of great danger. The elephant, on the contrary, will stand more steadily, though not without agitation, whilst his rider aims a shot at the tiger before he can have time to take his fatal spring. When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet. The elephant then either kneels upon him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him perhaps twenty paces off. The elephants, however, are dreadfully torn; and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with. In this case it often happens that the elephant himself falls from pain, or from the hope of rolling on his enemy, and the people on his back are in very considerable danger both from friends and foes. The hunting of the tiger in India is conducted on a magnificent scale by the Eastern princes, with whom it is a favourite amusement. They are attended by considerable bodies of men well mounted and armed with lances. As soon as the animals are roused they are attacked on all sides with pikes, arrows, and sabres, and are soon destroyed. An opinion that wounds inflicted by the stroke of animals of this kind are envenomed, is common in the East. Williamson says: "However trivial the scratches made by the claws of tigers may appear, yet, whether it be owing to any noxious quality in the claw itself, to the manner in which the tiger strikes, or any other matter, I have no hesitation in saying, that at least a majority of such as have been under my notice have died. And I have generally remarked, that those whose cases appeared the least alarming were most suddenly carried off. I have ever thought the perturbation arising from the nature of the attack to have a considerable share in the fatality alluded to, especially as I never knew any one wounded by a tiger to die without suffering for some days under that most dreadful symptom, a locked jaw! Such as have been wounded to appearance severely, but accompanied by a moderate hæmorrhage, I have commonly found to recover, excepting in the rainy season. At that period I should expect serious consequences from a bite or scratch." It is usual to place a small white triangular flag, fixed to a bamboo staff of ten or twelve feet long, at the place where a tiger has destroyed a Southey alludes to this custom in his curse man. of Kehama "A white flag flapping to the winds of night It is common also for the passengers to each throw a stone or brick near the spot, so that in the course of a little time a pile, equal to a good waggon-load, is collected. This custom, as well as the fixing a rag on any particular thorn bush near the fatal spot, is in use, likewise, on various accounts. Many brambles may be seen in a day's journey completely covered with these motley appendages. The sight of the flags and piles of stone imparts a certain melancholy, not perhaps altogether devoid of ap prehension. They may be said to be of service in pointing out the places most frequented by tigers. In Stathan's "Indian Recollections" there is an account of an almost miraculous escape from the jaws of a tiger. "A party of Europeans went into the jungles for the purpose of shooting tigers. They had not proceeded far before they roused an immense tigress, which, with the greatest intrepidity, charged the line of elephants on which they were seated. At this moment a female elephant in the direct point of attack, which had been lately purchased and was hitherto untried, through dread of the approaching enemy, turned suddenly round to fly from the field of battle. It was in vain that the driver exerted all his skill to make her face the tigress. The active creature, therefore, instantly sprang upon her back, and seizing the person in the howdah by the thigh, speedily brought him to the ground; then throwing him, quite stunned by the fall, over her shoulders, just in the same manner as a fox carries a goose, she started off to the jungle. Every rifle was pointed at her, but no one dared to fire, because of the |