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he instantly was checked, and my ball, which follow- 

 ed the same instant, threw him down. We two then 

 discharged our whole artillery, which originally con- 

 sisted of two double barrelled guns, loaded with 

 slugs, and a pair of pistols. Most of them took 

 effect, as we could discover by his wincing, for he 

 was not above ten yards from us at any time, and 

 at one moment, when the elephant chose to take 

 fright and turn his head round away from the beast, 

 running his haunches almost into the bush, \\otjive. 

 By this time William Fraser had come round, and 

 discharged a few balls at the Tiger, which lay look- 

 ing at us, grinning and growling, his ears thrown 

 back, but unable to stir. A pistol fired by me, 

 shattered his lower jaw-bone ; and immediately, as 

 danger of approaching him was now over, one of the 

 villagers with a matchlock went close to him, and 

 applying the muzzle of his piece to the nape of his 

 neck, shot him dead, and put him out of his pain. 

 The people then dragged him out, and we dismount- 

 ed to look at him, pierced through and through ; yet 

 one could not contemplate him without satisfaction, 

 as we were told that he had long infested the high 

 road, and carried off many passengers. One hears 

 of the roar of a Tiger, and fancies it like that of a 

 bull, but in fact it is more like the grunt of a hog, 

 though twenty times louder, and certainly one of the 

 most tremendous animal noises one can imagine." * 



But many other means are resorted to for the 

 destruction of this formidable animal, chiefly by the 

 * Quoted in Nat. Lib. iv. p. 149. 



