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" recovered however, and I saw him sometime afterwards, fearfully 

 " scarred and with a stiff arm, but he joined the beaters as merrily 

 " as any of them. I once saw a buffalo very shortly after it had 

 " been struck by a tiger, close to the spot I was encamped at ; the 

 " animal was still alive and standing up ; he had been struck in 

 " the shoulder, where the flesh was a mass of pulp, the leg useless, 

 " and a bite through the windpipe caused the animal, when it 

 " breathed, to swell out all under the skin till it looked enormous. 

 " It died soon after, and I watched over the carcass till dark, but 

 " there being no moon, I had to leave the spot ; the next morning 

 " the buffalo had been dragged down into a ravine, and all the 

 " hind-quarters demolished. Notwithstanding all this and all that 

 " can be said against the tiger as a poacher, cowardly thief, and 

 ' everything else that is bad, what a royal beast he is ! especially 

 " when seen in his glory of full liberty and freedom, wandering 

 '* over these grand hills. I saw one such sight, on an evening 

 " returning from a distant excursion, on reaching the summit of a 

 " hill overlooking a wide expanse of undulating vallies, interspersed 

 " with woods and streams ; there in a sunny glade, with the 

 " declining rays of the evening sun glancing on his tawny striped 

 " skin, was a splendid tiger, walking calmly and quietly along in 

 " all the security of the solitude of the place, little dreaming of the 

 " presence of danger or the admiring though anxious eyes that 

 " were fixed upon him. It was one of those sights which retain 

 " their hold on the memory so long as life itself lasts. What a 

 " beautiful picture it was ! !" 



HAWKEYE. 



One could hardly wish for better illustrations of the habits of 

 wild animals than those furnished by the notes of my friend 

 HAWKYE who, in its own wild haunts, has formed so thorough 

 and intimate an acquaintance with each one of which he writes. 

 Within the last few days, I have been told of one" instance when 

 three officers from this station (Kamptee, hot season, 1869) and 

 their attendants witnessed, from first to last, the successful stalk of 

 a cow by a tigress and the kill that followed. As a wind-up, (ho 

 sportsmen had then the satisfaction of avenging the death of the 



