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This is a completely ridiculous detail to ask about, but in Chapter 9 when the Judge is looting the Indian corpse in the riverbed, where/how the heck would said Indian have acquired a "Tiger-Skin" bag?

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Agustin Calvetti Jaguars are often called tigers, as pumas or mountain lions are called lions in Latin America.
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Sir Gawain I had the same question while reading all those B. Traven books based in Mexico. They're constantly mentioning tiger attacks in the jungle.
As far as I can tell they're just talking about jaguars or ocelots. On the Wikipedia page for Jaguars it mentions that in Mexican Spanish they used to be referred to as tigers.
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