this was a most curious piece of mechanism as large as life, representing a Royal Tiger in the act of devouring a prostrate European officer: within the body of the animal was a row of keys of natural notes . . . intended to resemble the cries of a person in distress intermixed with the horrible roar of the Tiger: the machinery was so contrived, that while this infernal music continued to play, the hand of the European victim was often lifted up, and the head convulsively thrown back to express his helpless and deplorable situation.
