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of affection ; however, they are not to be trusted, for the 

 natural ferocity of their disposition often breaks out most in- 

 opportunely and fatally. Sometimes they are effectually 

 cowed by the wild tempests that occasionally sweep over the 

 continent of India. A curious anecdote illustrating this is to 

 be found in one of the early numbers of the "Penny Maga- 

 zine." During the dreadful storm and inundation in Bengal, 

 in May, 1833, the estates of Mr. Campbell, situated on the 

 island of Sauger, at the entrance of the river Hoogly suffered 

 so greatly, that out of three thousand people living on his 

 grounds only six or seven hundred escaped, and these princi- 

 pally by clinging to the roof and ceiling of his house. When 

 the house was in this close, crammed state, with scarcely room 

 within it for another individual, what should come squeezing 

 and pushing its way into the interior of the room but an im- 

 mense tiger, with its tail hanging down, and exhibiting every 

 other symptom of excessive fear. Having reached the room 

 in which Mr. Campbell was sitting, he nestled himself into one 

 of the corners, and lay down like a large Newfoundland dog. 

 Mr. Campbell loaded his gun in a very quiet manner, and shot 

 him dead on the spot. 



Let us take one more glance at the mode of hunting usu- 

 ally pursued, namely, that in which elephants are used. 

 Equipped in the usual manner, a party set off in search of 

 the tiger ; in passing through the forest they started wild 

 hogs, hog-deer, and antelopes in abundance, but at none of 

 these would they fire ; the whole of their charges was reserved 

 for a different foe. They passed through a thick wood, and 

 the skill with which the elephant made a way through it was 

 marvellous breaking some branches, bending others, uproot- 

 ing small trees and avoiding large ones, they seemed en- 

 dowed with as much reason as man himself. At length the 

 forest is cleared, and they enter an open space of marshy 

 grass, not three feet high : a large herd of cattle were feeding 

 there, and the herdsman was sitting under a bush, when just 



