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very near, and killed him : this they might have 

 accomplished with their bayonets, for the poor 

 creature came to them for protection, having re- 

 cently received several scratches in his side from 

 a tiger, and his wounds were still bleeding. 



Some idea may be formed how numerous the 

 tigers must have been at one period in Bengal, 

 from the circumstance that one gentleman is re- 

 ported to have killed upwards of three hundred 

 and sixty. I heard Mr. Henry Ramus, at the 

 time he was Judge of the circuit of Bahar, declare 

 that he had killed that number, and I was told 

 that others fell by his hand before his death. He 

 kept a particular account of every one which he 

 killed, of which I suppose his friends are now in 

 possession. Having charge of the Company's 

 elephants for many years, at a time when the Co- 

 sumbazar island and Patellee jungle were over- 

 run with tigers, he enjoyed better opportunities of 

 killing them than has fallen to the lot of any 

 other man, even of the German Paul, of whom 

 Captain Williamson has said so much. 



