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I was, for, fortunately, he could not see me, he passed 

 right in front of the camera, then dived into the jungle 

 on the other side. 



The game-ranger came up a moment later dripping 

 with perspiration, and declaring that he would not 

 go through the same thing again for a thousand 

 pounds. Still, of course, I had secured some 

 absolutely unique photographs, and no one had got 

 hurt over the task. We were just discussing our 

 next move with three native spearmen, when the tiger 

 joined in by giving vent to a most appalling cough, 

 one of the most dreadful sounds I have ever heard 

 emitted by an animal. A couple of seconds later all 

 five of us were shinning up trees like monkeys. 

 Personally, I managed to take several good-sized pieces 

 of skin off my legs in the process, but at the moment 

 this did not seem an important matter. I had got 

 out of reach of the enemy. 



We stayed up our trees for some little time, then, 

 as the tiger seemed to have changed his mind, we 

 descended to the ground, and started back towards 

 the place where we had left our elephant. For my 

 part I was well satisfied. The chance with a tiger had 

 come, after all ; and though, now that it was all over, 

 I had a shaky feeling due to the consciousness of having 

 taken a rather foolhardy risk, I had come out of it 

 unscathed, and with my negatives. 



But the natives were far from pleased They were 



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