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one arm broken in two places. Taking him into an 

 open space, we did what we could to resuscitate him, 

 and when he came to, he told us that as they fell 

 the tigress had seized him by the arm, and was drag- 

 ging him off, when he remembered he had a double- 

 barrelled pistol in his belt. Fortunately at that 

 instant the brute paused for a moment ; this enabled 

 him to draw the weapon and, putting it to her ear, fired, 

 and then became unconscious. We asked him, did he 

 see anything of the two tigers ? He said he fell almost 

 on top of them, but that they were engaged in too 

 deadly a conflict to notice him and that they were still 

 struggling when the tigress dragged him away. He 

 was very faint, but not seriously wounded ; a glass of 

 grog revived him, and as he was a plucky fellow and 

 not despondent as are too many who have been 

 mauled by a tiger we anticipated that he was in 

 no immediate danger. Hearing the monotonous cry 

 of a set of palanquin bearers, to intercept them 

 did not take us long. Our delight may be imagined 

 when in the occupant we recognised the superin- 

 tending surgeon, 1 who was going his rounds of in- 

 spection, en route to Eagapore and Ell ore. He was 

 out of his conveyance in a moment and soon dressed 

 B's arm and deposited him in the palanquin, 

 saying he himself would walk ; but just then two of 

 the sowars, who had been sent some way off, hear- 

 ing our shots, rode up. One was dismounted and 

 the doctor got on his horse and altered his course 

 from Eagapore to Ellore. As soon as we had seen 

 them off we thought of Eamasawmy, and fruitlessly 

 we searched everywhere, to find only one tiger dead, 



1 Dr. Lo Veil, a well-known shot. 



