DESCRIPTION OF A HUNQUAH. 21 



dence and from ten to twenty thousand peo- 

 ple assembled before morning at the spot ap- 

 pointed. 



At day break about a hundred were sent 

 off to set fire to the sides of the reserved jungle, 

 and the main body, consisting of men 3 women, 

 and children, many of them carrying all sorts 

 of noisy instruments, match-lock-guns, bows 

 and arrows, spears, fire works &c. proceed- 

 ed to the extremity of it, where they ranged 

 themselves in a line of some miles in extent. 

 They then raised a most hideous noise, con- 

 tinuing it as they advanced towards the nets, 

 which they tried to do as well as they could 

 in the form of a crescent, but it was impossible 

 to proceed regularly on account of the uneven- 

 ess of the ground, and the thickness of the co- 

 ver in many parts. Numbers were left far 

 behind, and yet none of them were injured. 

 It seldom happens that any are killed or 

 taken away by tigers on such occasions; the 

 animals are all too much alarmed to think of 

 any thing but their own safety, and naturally 

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