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The clouded or tortoise-shell tiger is a native of Sumatra. Sir Stamford Raffles, in speaking of a young specimen of this kind, says, "that while in a state of confinement, it was remarkable for good temper and playfulness: no domestic kitten could be more so. On board the ship there was a small dog who used to play around the cage, and with the animal, and it was amusing to see the playfulness and tenderness with which the latter came in contact with his inferior-sized companion. He never seemed to look on men or children as prey, but as companions; and the natives assert, that, when wild, they live principally on poultry, birds, and small deer; they are not found in numbers, and may be considered rather a rare animal even in the southern part of Sumatra. They are generally found in the vicinity of villages, and are not dreaded by the natives, except as far as they may destroy their poultry."

The tiger was well known to the Romans; and Dion remarks, that the tigers first seen by them, and, as he thinks, by the Greeks also, were those sent by the Indians as gifts when they were suing

for peace from Augustus. The Emperor Philip, on one occasion, exhibited ten tigers, thirty-two elephants, ten elks, sixty lions, thirty leopards, ten hyænas, one hippopotamus, one rhinoceros, twenty wild asses, and an infinite number of deer, goats, antelopes, and other beasts. This brutal exhibition was crowned by the mortal combat of two thousand gladiators.

In the East the tiger is associated emblematically with power. Thus the Chinese Mandarins cover their seats of justice with its skin. The tiger soldiers of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib were among the choicest of their troops. The tiger's head of solid gold, gorgeous with jewels, that formed the principal ornament of the throne of Hyder and Tippoo, and was taken by the British at the storming of Seringapatam, is well known, and is now placed in the gold pantry at Windsor Castle. In the museum at the India House is an automatic figure of a royal tiger tearing a soldier in the pay of the British to pieces, and imitating, by a rude mechanism, the growls of the beast and the cries of the sufferer. This was said to be a

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favourite toy of Tippoo Saib's. Though the tiger is the general object of fear and dread to all animals, he is on some occasions sensible to the same feelings, though from different causes. He shrinks from storms; thunder and lightning will draw him to seek shelter wherever it may be found.

During the tremendous hurricane at the mouth of the Ganges, in May 1833, a number of the natives had taken shelter from the pitiless storm in Mr. Campbell's bungalow; while there, a fullgrown tiger, quite overpowered by the storm, entered, and going past them too much frightened and fatigued to do any injury, lay down in a corner, and fell fast asleep. As it was, however, uncertain in what humour he might awake, Mr. Campbell thought it prudent to shoot him with his rifle through the head. The skin is, we believe, still in Mr. Campbell's possession, in remembrance of this remarkable event.

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