In most of the woods you may see wild cats, differing from the domestic
ones in our country in no other respect except that the extremity of the
tail is flatter and more compressed, and that they are superior in size.
They are also of various colours. The Indians eat them roasted, but
being extremely swift and shy, they are not killed without difficulty.
We had a young cat in the town of Conception, born of a tame mother and
a wild father, than which I never saw a larger or handsomer, or one more
ferocious and fugitive.