60 THE TIGER. 



some of us descended from our elephants to examine 

 him more closely. 



"He was found to be a male, and one of the largest 

 I had ever seen:" 



IV. 



ANOTHER hunter, and similar stories. Our guide is 

 now M. Thomas Anquetil. The scene is in Birmah, 

 at some miles from Ngnyoun-goo, in a forest, in the 

 centre of which a lake occupies the place of an ancient 

 monastery which had been destroyed by an earth- 

 quake. This lake is covered by water-fowl. 



Accompanied by a European, M. le Baron de 



L , his servants, and a few natives, amongst 



whom was one named Laos, M. Thomas Anquetil 

 went out hunting. 



Going along by the side of the lake on foot, the 

 narrator separated from his companions, and followed 

 only by an Indian rower, who had charge of his rifle, 

 had just fired both barrels on a flight of birds. The 

 Indian went forward immediately to gather up the 

 dead and the wounded. " He had not gone twenty 

 yards when a sharp, piercing, and terrible roar re- 

 sounded through the solitudes of the forest, and was 

 re-echoed by the neighbouring rocks. Soon I heard a 

 rapid movement, and then a tiger sprang from the 



