with even greater dexterity than a coachman's whip), and having thus brought the victim within reach of the mouth, to drag it beneath the surface, and speedily devour it.

7. Tiger-hunting holds a high place among the amusements of the Indian nabobs and the English officers stationed in Hindostan. This sport is principally followed on elephants placed in line, and on which the hunters ride. When all is ready, at a preconcerted signal they enter the jungles, beat them in every direction, and compel the tiger to show itself. Fire-arms then do their work. It often happens that the ferocious beast springs on the flank of an elephant and tries to seize one of the riders.

8. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the tiger is capable of being trained and rendered perfectly docile; it is even susceptible of a certain degree of attachment. One that lived in a managerie in Paris had been brought from India in a ship on which it had been allowed to wander about at large. The confidence it inspired was such that the cabin-boys lay between its legs, and slept with their heads on its flanks.

9. A tigress which had been brought to England, and which had not shown any signs of a bad disposition on board ship, became morose when shut up in the managerie. Some time after, however, a sailor, one of its late traveling companions, came to visit the managerie, and solicited permission to enter the den where this tigress was confined. The latter at once recognized him, and testified the greatest pleasure. All the day after its friend had departed it lay prostrate with grief.

10. It is said that Nero had a tigress, named Phoebe, which he often kept near him in his apartments, and which he more than once made the instrument of his brutal, vindictive feelings. At the termination of an orgy, nothing gratified him so much as to point out to this animal some illustrious patrician that had come under his displeasure,

and quickly a bleeding victim rolled at the feet of the monster with a human face. Here the veritable tiger was Nero.

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thine heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did He who made the Lamb make thee?

1. It was eight o'clock at night; we were dining, and during our meal discussing our projects for the morrow, when there arrived, quite out of breath, an Arab belonging to the tribe of Ben-Assenat. He told me that at sunset a leopard came and carried off a goat in the presence of the goat-herd, and that he had seen it enter a ravine, where it was certain to be found. I was too anxious to meet this infernal beast to hesitate an instant; dinner was left unfinished, and a rush was made at once to my weapons, notwithstanding the representations of several who wished to detain me, by observing that the night was very dark and the weather bad; but knowing that the moon rose at ten o'clock, and that I ought to be with the tribe before that hour, I started.

2. The man who conducted me, in his endeavors to make a short cut, went along narrow tracks, and often through the brushwood. My hunting-knife bumped against my legs and caught in the branches; so, to get it out of the way, I pushed it round my waist-belt behind, instead of retaining it by my side. I mention this fact here, though

it appears of but little importance, because, as will be seen hereafter, it was the means to which I owe my life.

3. On reaching the tribe, I found the Arabs waiting for me. For a decoy they had got ready a goat and a stake to attach it to. They led me about a quarter of a mile from the camp, to the margin of a wide and deep. ravine. Here they halted and explained: "The leopard is inside there; in this small thicket place yourself; we will go and fix the lure."

4. I was very much surprised they had chosen such a convenient position for me, and one which I could not have found without great difficulty. The ground was an inclined plane, which descended by a somewhat steep slope to the ravine, on the brink of which, facing from it, I took my stand. The Arabs drove in the stake on the higher ground, about twenty feet from me, and there tied the goat, then wishing me good luck, ran off with all haste, not desiring to become intimate with the dangerous animal they believed to be in the vicinity.

5. I had seated myself in the thicket, and had not drawn my hunting-knife from its sheath to lay it on the ground so as to have it ready. A few minutes had scarcely elapsed, when separating the slender twigs which might impede its movements, quicker than lightning the marauder fell upon the bait. I held my breath, and hesitated to fire, hoping the moon would afford me a gleam of light. A delay of some seconds thus ensued, for its rays only occasionally showed through the dark flitting clouds. But what was my astonishment to see the leopard pass by me carrying off the goat with the ease that a cat bears off a mouse! It was about ten feet from me, and moving directly across; I could neither distinguish head nor tail, only a black indistinct mass.