22 HOW I KILLED THE TIGER. 



disposition to heal. My passage was accordingly 

 taken in a steamer going through the Suez Canal. 

 On arriving at Calcutta, Sir Joseph Fayrer ex- 

 amined me, and gave me some good advice. 



The voyage home extended over two months, 

 and by the time I arrived at Holyhead my wounds 

 had just healed. I took up my quarters in the 

 north of Ireland on the coast, and as I had bene- 

 fitted so much by the voyage, I thought it advis- 

 able to go in for yachting and fishing. I could 

 not have done better, for in a few months I could 

 rough it with the hardiest native in that part. 



I was obliged to take from sixty to eighty 

 drops of laudanum every night for six months. 

 The dose was then reduced to thirty drops for 

 about a week before it was discontinued altogether. 

 Up to the time of being mauled, though I had 

 had many hair-breadth escapes, and several heavy 

 chastisements, I was more irreligious than any 

 heathen. But that night, when weak with loss 

 of blood, I took that big dose of laudanum, and 

 turned in, I had a hazy impression that my 

 Saviour was close to me. It was the commence- 

 ment of my conversion, and throughout my illness 

 I had the privilege of being visited daily by the 

 American Baptist, and the Church of England 

 missionaries, from whom I derived great comfort. 

 Had I continued without Christ, I could not have 



