Sentence:  They are found in Brasil, Paraguay, and in the country of the Amazons; and there is reason to believe that the animal, described by some travellers, under the name of the Ocorome, in Peru, is the same as the <WSD>cougar</WSD>, as well as that in the country of the Iroquois, which has been considered as a tiger, thought it is neither striped like that animal, nor spotted like the panther. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A mountain lion; "Puma concolor".