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small bit of cover where she had killed, she walked 

 back over her stalk to a pool of water at the east 

 extremity of the islands, where we lost sight of 

 her. As the tigress had retreated into the very 

 part of the cover where Shaikh Boden had first 

 expected to find her, we had merely to follow out 

 the original idea of the beat, and we posted our- 

 selves about half-way down the bank under a 

 couple of trees. 



4 The tigress turned up almost at the first shout 

 of the beaters, and made straight towards Allen, 

 and, turning off when opposite to where he was 

 sitting, moved nearly parallel to the bank in 

 Oxley's and my direction (we were under the 

 same tree), and brought up in a small crack be- 

 tween two islands opposite to us, about eighty 

 yards off, and looked round in the direction of 

 the beaters. As this seemed the best chance we 

 were likely to get, we agreed to open fire. I fired 

 first, and rolled her over, and Allen got two 

 difficult shots as she was galloping up a small 

 bank over which she disappeared. We then went 

 down, and, after a short search found the tigress 

 lying dead in the grass.' 



I think the sight so graphically described by 

 my friend has been seldom if ever equalled, as an 

 example of the tiger's mode of taking its prey ; 

 and, as far as my limited knowledge and experi- 



