I've started reading The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, which is set in ... well, I don't know where! The guys haven't got to the SM yet, they're still in some place there's a lot of oil wells, and the local "indians" are brown-skinned rather than "red" (this is non-pc 1935, OK?). The gang sets off on a trek through the jungle, and are constantly worried about the presence of lions and tigers (which are extensively hunted by sailors and the like).

Were there really lions and tigers there then? (And where was "there"?) I can't imagine that author B Traven, who spent many years in Mexico, would be ignorant onthat point, yet I always thought they were Asian animals.

Lighten my darkness, please!

Steve