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sions in India, they are liable to meet with ene- 

 mies, and are obliged to be prepared accordingly. 

 They remained three weeks or a month near the 

 same place, occasionally changing their ground, 

 as they destroyed the animals in the neighbour- 

 hood, and then returned to Lucknow, much in 

 the same manner and style as they left it, but by 

 a different route. 



The number of tigers, buffaloes, hogs, deer, and 

 other animals that were killed, can only be con- 

 ceived, by the prodigious magnitude of the force 

 employed for their destruction, in a country where 

 they abounded. Notwithstanding this, should I 

 insert the number of animals killed on one excur- 

 sion, as reported to me from the best authority, 

 my readers would scarcely credit it. 



