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was posted in a tree, while G. and the other N. beat through 

 on an elephant. The man on the tree first shot two of the tigers 

 right and left, and then Colonel G. saw a very large one lying 

 in the shade of a dense bush, and fired at it, on which it 

 charged and mounted on the elephant's head. It was a small 

 female elephant, and was terribly punished about the trunk 

 and eyes in this encounter, though the mahout (a bold fellow 

 named Eamzan who was afterwards in my own service) bat- 

 tered the tiger's head with his iron driving-hook so as to leave 

 deep marks in the bones of his skull. At length he was 

 shaken off, and retreated ; but when the sportsmen urged in 

 the elephant again, and the tiger charged as before, she turned 

 round, and the tiger, catching her by the hind leg, fairly pulled 

 her over on her side. My informant, who was in the howdah, 

 said that for a time his arm was pinned between it and the 

 tigers body, who was making efforts to pull his shikari out of 

 the back seat. They were all, of course, spilt on the ground 

 with their guns ; and Colonel G., getting hold of one, made 

 the tiger retreat with a shot in the chest. The elephant had 

 fled from the scene of action, and the two sportsmen then went 

 in at the beast on foot. It charged again, and when close 

 to them was finally dropped by a lucky shot in the head. But 

 the sport did not end here ; for they found two more tigers in 

 the same cover immediately afterwards, and- killed one of 

 them, or four altogether in the day. The worrying she had 

 received, however, was the death of the elephant, which was 

 buried at Bhadugaon one of the few instances on record of 

 an elephant being actually killed by a tiger. 



About eleven o'clock we again faced the scorching hot 

 wind, and made silently for the cover where lay the man-eater. 

 I surrounded it with scouts on trees ; and posted a pad-ele- 

 phant at the only point where he could easily get up the high 



