THE following account of a tiger hunt, in Java, is given 

 by a sailor, in a letter to his brother, dated December, 1832. 

 At seven o'clock, on the morning of October 2d, I set out 

 with my two sons, a Berzoekie man in my service, and about 

 fifty servants, armed with pikes and hogspears ; I was armed 

 with a gun and a spear. The tiger for which we were on 

 the look-out was in the valley about two miles and a half dis- 

 tant from our port. The moment we arrived near him, we 

 commenced operations. About nine o'clock we effectually 

 drove^ him out of his den of underwood ; and while he was 

 doubling the brow of a hill, I had a rap at him, which took 

 effect. He now made over to the west side of the valley, 

 and into a thorny bush. In half an hour we started him 

 again ; he then ran along the western side of the valley into 

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