570 ikinas of tbe 1Rot>, IRifle, anfc Gun 



We now turned back, and at length discovered a 

 spot where the elephant could descend and cross the 

 deep nullah. We then measured the distance 82 

 yards, as nearly as we could step it. My -577 solid 

 bullet of pure lead had struck the tigress in the back 

 of the neck ; it had reduced to pulp several of the 

 vertebrae, and entering the brain, it had divided itself 

 into two portions by cutting its substance upon the 

 hard bones of the broken skull, which was literally 

 smashed to pieces. 



I found a sharp-pointed, jagged piece of lead repre- 

 senting about one-third of the bullet, protruding through 

 the right eyeball ; the remaining two-thirds I discovered 

 in the bones of the face by the back teeth, where it was 

 fixed in a misshapen but compact mass among splinters 

 of broken jaw. 



Berry's bullet had also struck the tigress, but pre- 

 cisely in the same place, close to the root of the tail, 

 where he had wounded the tiger a short time before. 

 Upon arrival at the camp we skinned the animal, and 

 took special pains to prove the effect of the unfortunate 

 hollow bullet. This was conclusive, and a serious 

 warning. 



The penetration was only an inch in depth. We 

 washed the flesh in cold water, and searched most care- 

 fully throughout the lacerated wound, which occupied 

 a very small area of about one inch. In this we found 

 two pieces of the copper plug, which stopped the hole 

 in front of the bullet, together with a number of very 

 minute fragments or flakes of lead ; these proved that 

 the extremely hollow projectile had broken up, and 



