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as the former began to move before them, up jumped the very 

 tiger they were seeking, and cantered off across a bare plain 

 dotted with small patches of bush jungle. Only one bullet 

 was fired at him, and he cleared the thick grass unhurt, they 

 pursuing him at full speed. Twice he threw them out by 

 stopping short in small strips of jungles, and then running 

 back when they had passed ; he gave them a very fast trot 

 for about two miles. He was at last struck with a bullet, 

 and crept into a close thicket of trees and bushes. The two 

 first sportsmen passed by him, the third one saw him rising to 

 charge. The driver of this gentleman's elephant had dropped 

 his goad, which he had not been permitted to recover, as the 

 elephant had become irritated and unmanageable ; he appeared 

 to see the tiger as quickly as the hunter, who had only time 

 to fire once, when the elephant rushed with the greatest fury 

 into the thicket, and falling upon his knees, nailed the tiger 

 with his tusks to the ground. Such was the violence of the 

 shock, that one of servants was thrown out, and a gun went 

 overboard. 



The struggles of the elephant to crush his still resisting foe, 

 who had fixed one paw on his eye, were so violent, that the 

 hunter had to hold on with all his power to keep himself in the 

 houdah. The second barrel of the gun went off in the scuffle., 

 the ball passing very near to the driver's head. At length 

 the elephant left him mangled and crushed, but not quite dead, 

 and some of the hunters firing into him, killed him. It was 

 a most beautifully marked tiger. 



So bold and daring does this animal become under the 

 influence of hunger, that it has been known to carry away 

 an individual from the midst of a party who had sat down 

 to refresh themselves near a jungle. 



