THE TIGER. 31 7 



on an elephant. The man on the tree first shot two 

 of the tigers right and left, and then Colonel G. saw 

 a very large one lying in the shade of a dense bush, and 

 fired at it, on which it charged and mounted on the 

 elephant's head. It was a small female elephant, and 

 was terribly punished about the trunk and eyes in this 

 encounter, though the mahout (a bold fellow named 

 Eamzan, who was afterwards in my own service) 

 battered the tiger's head with his iron driving-hook so 

 as to leave deep marks in the bones of his skull. At 

 length he was shaken oflf, and retreated ; but when the 

 sportsmen urged in the elephant again, and the tio-er 

 charged as before, she turned round, and the tiger, 

 catching her by the hind-leg, fairly pulled her over on 

 her side. My informant, who was in the howdah, said 

 that for a time his arm was pinned between it and the 

 tiger's body, who was making efforts to pull his shikari 

 out of the back seat. They were all, of course, spilt on 

 the ground with their guns; and Colonel G., getting 

 hold of one, made the tiger retreat with a shot in the 

 chest. The elephant had fled from the scene of action, 

 and the two sportsmen then went in at the beast on 

 foot. It charged again, and when close to them was 

 finally dropped by a lucky shot in the head. But the 

 sport did not end here ; for they found two more tigers 

 in the same cover immediately afterwards, and killed 

 one of them — or four altogether in the day. The 

 worrying she had received, however, was the death of 

 the elephant, which was buried at Bhadiigaon — one of 

 the few instances on record of an elephant being actually 

 killed by a tiger. 



About eleven o'clock we again faced the scorching 

 hot wind, and made silently for the cover where lay the 

 man-eater. I surrounded it with scouts on trees ; and 



