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pace towards the thicket. Every second his face and 

 his hands were torn by the hushes through which the 

 tigress carried him. His death appeared to him 

 certain, and he remained motionless, resigned to his 

 fate. Then the thought struck him that lie had in his 

 belt a pair of pistols. He seized one of them, and 

 pointing it at the animal's head, he fired. The tigress 

 shook violently, her teeth were pressed more deeply 

 into the flesh of her victim, and that was all. The 

 poor fellow fainted again. When he came to himself 

 once more, wishing to try his last chance, he took his 

 .second pistol, and this time aimed under the shoulder- 

 blade, in the direction of the heart, and the tigress fell 

 dead, without a struggle or a groan, whilst the hunter, 

 exhausted by this last effort, had not even strength to 

 shout to his friends when he heard them approach. 



III. 



LET us return to Captain Dunlop. 



He started one morning from the camp of Jubrawalla, 

 on the banks of the Sooswa, accompanied by Major 



Pt . They had with them seven elephants. Near 



this spot was a piece of land covered with young 

 cotton plants and thick boxwood bushes. As the 

 hunters were crossing this ground, they perceived the 

 carcase of an ox, partly devoure'd by some animal, 



