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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



fixed him, while some natives finished him, by beating him en the 

 head with hedge-stakes. The brave artillery-man was, after all, 

 but slightly hurt : he claimed the skin, which was very cheerfully 

 given to him. There was, however, a cry among the natives that 

 the head should be cut off: it was ; and in so doing, the knife 

 tame Directly across the bayonet. The animal measured scarcely 

 less than four feet from the root of the tail to the muzzle. There 

 was no tradition of a tiger having been in Jaffna before ; indeed, 

 this one must have either come a distance of almost twenty miles, 

 or have swam across an arm of the sea nearly two in breadth ; for 

 Jaffna stands on a peninsula, on which there is no jungle of any 



A FANTHKR. 



