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were instantly hanged. The others, having no 

 marks of the least scratch, I considered as safe 

 About three weeks after, on my march to Cal- 

 cutta, my dog-keeper came running up to my 

 tent, crying aloud, and at the same time keeping 

 three terriers, as well as he could, at arm's length, 

 they making all possible effort to bite him. 



As soon as he approached, I saw by their 

 hair erected like bristles, their inflamed eyes, and 

 foaming mouths, that they were mad : I there- 

 fore directed the poor fellow to twist their cords 

 round a tree, which he dexterously effected, and 

 I then caused them to be dispatched with a wooden 

 mallet, used for driving tent-pins. The dog- 

 keeper was bitten in at least twenty places ; some 

 of them trifling, others large bites. To the whole 

 of these I applied lunar caustic, and put him into 

 a salivation as quickly as I could. 



The ptyalism was kept up for fourteen or fif- 

 teen days. He lived with me several years after, 

 and remained in perfect health. On another 

 occasion, I had a small pet spaniel puppy, about 

 six months old, tied up in a verandah, which one 

 night cried out violently, as if something was 

 killing it. On the servant's running to see the 



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