'j8 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



large herd of cattle was feeding there, and the herdsman was 

 sitting under a bush ; when, just as the former began to move 

 before us, up sprang the very Tiger to whom our visit was 

 intended, and cantered off across a bare plain, dotted with 

 small patches of bush-jungle. He took to the open country 

 in a style which would have more become a Fox than a Tiger, 

 who is expected by his pursuers to fight and not to run ; and 

 as he was flushed on the flank of the line, only one bullet was 

 fired at him ere he cleared the thick grass. He was unhurt, 

 and we pursued him at full speed. Twice he threw us out by 

 stopping short in small strips of jungle, and then heading back 

 after we had passed j and he had given us a very fast trot of 

 about two miles, when Colonel Arnold, who led the field, at 

 last reached him by a capital shot, his Elephant being in full 

 career. As soon as he felt himself wounded, the Tiger crept 

 into a close thicket of trees and bushes, and crouched. The 

 two leading sportsmen overran the spot where he lay, and as I 

 came up I saw him, through an aperture, rising to attempt a 

 charge. My mahout had just before, in the heat of the chase, 

 dropped his ankors, or goad, which I had refused to allow him 

 to recover ; and the Elephant, being notoriously savage, and 

 further irritated by the goading he had undergone, became 

 consequently unmanageable ; he appeared to see the Tiger as 

 soon as myself, and I had only time to fire one shot, when he 

 suddenly rushed with the greatest fury into the thicket, and 

 falling upon his knees, nailed the Tiger with his tusks to the 

 ground. Such was the violence of the shock, that my servant, 

 who sat behind, was thrown out, and one of my guns went 

 overboard. The struggles of my Elephant to crush his still 

 resisting foe, who had fixed one paw on his eye, were so ener- 

 getic that I was obliged to hold on with all my strength to 

 keep myself in the howda. The second barrel, too, of the gun 

 which I still retained in my hand, went off in the scuffle, the 



