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whole reward. They arm themselves with match- 

 lock guns, swords and spears. It is necessary 

 that they should possess patience, and a consider- 

 able degree of coolness, and be perfectly silent. 

 The tiger having glutted his appetite on the bul- 

 lock not long before, cannot be veiy hungry, there- 

 fore the least noise would prevent him from re- 

 turning to it. If he should return, they generally 

 wound him, and most times mortally ; yet it sel- 

 dom happens that he falls dead on the spot. 



Capt. Williamson says, that the Shecarries,vfhen 

 they have wounded a tiger, frequently dismount 

 from michauns, and follow him through the 

 jungles. This I have never known to take place ; 

 however, it may have happened. Whenever it 

 has occurred, I should think it must have been 

 before dark, or after day light in the morning. I 

 cannot think that any man would be so fool-hardy 

 as to be searching about in the dark, through thick 

 cover, for a wounded and enraged tiger, for even 

 in moon-light, the eye cannot penetrate the thick- 

 ets on account of the shade. These animals are 

 so tenacious of life, that they often require many 

 balls to enter them before they die. I knew an 

 instance of a tiger's receiving eighteen balls before 

 he fell. Like other animals of the feline species, 



