Sept 24 1836 to Oct 24 1836 - PTR, Vol. 9

sure. A beast of prey, resembling the tiger of Africa, infests some portions of the unseittled country, as appears from the following anecdote. A Mrs. More, at whose house I was residing, told roe of a young lady, who after having made her a visit, sat out on horse-back early in the afternoon to return home, a distance of five or six miles. In the midst of a forest through which the road lay, she heard a ·cry resembling that of the human voice. Listening, and hearing it repeated, until she was satisfied that some person was near, she answered it, and the call was repeated two or three times, until the animal came in sight, when she put her horse to his greatest speed, and was pursued by her collocutor, who soon overtook her, mounted behind, and began lacerating and tear- ing her neck and shoulders, and did not desist until she rode into the yard at hoone, and a gun was fired, which broke his hold and brought him to the ground. The tribes of feathered population in Texas are not few, and their attractions among persons who love a dish of good wild fowl, are not feeble. We have the wild goose, the brandt, the wild turkey, a great variety of ducks, the prairie hen, the curlew, the sand-hill crane, all of which are abundant and most delicious for the table. A rare bird, but of no value to the gun- ner or the epicure, is the pelican. Other species, smaller and more common, it is scarcely worth our time to enumerate.

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