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a bear making nearly the same noise ; " and M. Louis 

 Viardot says the same.* 



With one blow of his paw he will break the back of 

 an ox, and will carry him afterwards as a cat carries a 

 mouse, and apparently without effort ; and it rarely 

 happens that the limbs of the victim touch the ground. 



II. 



MOUNTED on elephants, some Europeans, among whom 

 were some indigo planters and officers of a native regi- 

 ment, left Bombay, intending to devote some time to 

 the noble pleasure of tiger hunting. They had not yet 

 reached the skirt of the forest, when the noise of their 

 march aroused a huge tigress, which, far from flying, 

 attacked furiously the line of elephants. One of these 

 animals, seeing the tiger for the first time, was fright- 

 ened, and in spite of the efforts of the hunter who rode 

 him, turned tail on the terrible beast. Seeing this, the 

 tigress rushed in pursuit, leaped on the elephant's 

 back, seized the hunter by the thigh, dragged him to 

 tho ground, and, throwing him over her shoulders 



* " The bear advanced resolutely, in a straight line, the head 

 raised, and uttered at intervals a blusterous hissing, like that 

 which a cat makes when barked at by a dog." Souvenirs de 

 Chasse, p. 791. 



