68 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
large herd of cattle was ding 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 ; 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 | 
