126 THE WILDERNESS AND JUNGLE 



ground, stretched out at full length, dead, the 

 shot having taken instant effect. 



Another very remarkable piece of luck befell a 

 Malay, who had the probably unique experi- 

 ence of shooting two tigers dead with an old 

 muzzle-loader charged with a bullet and four 

 buckshot. The man saw a tiger in the jungle 

 about twenty yards away, and fired at it. It 

 was a reckless thing to do, but the brute fell. 

 When he crept cautiously up to where it lay, 

 what was his surprise to find not one dead 

 animal but two, a male and female, side by 

 side ! This extraordinary adventure was, as 

 might be expected, soon common knowledge 

 in the district, and an official of the Selangor 

 Museum made a careful examination of the 

 dead beasts, finding that in each case a single 

 shot, no larger than a pea, had gone clean 

 through the heart. Such luck is all but in- 

 credible, and is like that of little boys who so 

 often catch the best fish in the river with the 

 cheapest of tackle, while strangers to the water 

 are unable to make a basket with the most 

 costly outfit procurable. 



Of the Indian leopard something has inci- 

 dentally been said in the foregoing account 

 of the tiger. When the sportsman arrives in 

 India he is told that there are several kinds of 



