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seriously hurt. I shall be Rontgen-rayed to 

 make sure the thigh-bone is not injured, and I 

 shall enjoy looking at the head of the gentleman 

 who tossed me. Some consolation for a man in 

 his sixtieth year; but never again shall I walk up 

 buffalo. 



The poor wounded man suffered terribly. I 

 doubt his recovering, although he is doing well, 

 and as ill-luck would have it, we ran on to a sand- 

 bank and had to remain on it for twelve hours till 

 the tide turned. The sensation of being tossed is 

 quite the most curious I ever experienced. One 

 seems literally to fly through the air. But for the 

 mud, I must have broken my neck. My sun- 

 lu-lmet was flattened and my neck is as stiff as if 

 I had been half hanged. While on the sand-bank 

 we had only I foot of water, and the sailors and 

 servants walked about round the launch, which 

 fortunately, being a paddle-boat, lay on an even 

 keel, and eventually floated on a flood-tide quite 

 uninjured. We had to anchor in a karl, where I 

 hired a native sailing-boat on to which we shipped 

 the injured man and sent him straight to Barisal 

 Hospital. The native boat could go by a shallower 

 channel and could beat the launch by a day. 



Whilst we were getting the launch shipshape 

 off Gurli Char Island, preparatory to starting on 

 our return journey, the local landlord came on 

 board and begged us to land and shoot a tiger 

 which had mauled a man and was killing their 

 cattle. Do you remember the picture of the 

 terrier " Who said rats ?" I was just like that 

 terrier " Who said tiger ?" Meyer protested 

 that he had had quite enough of taking me after 



