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would prevent him from returning to it. If 

 he should return, they generally wound him, 

 and most times mortally ; yet it seldom hap- 

 pens that he falls dead on the spot. 



Captain Williamson says, that the Shecar- 

 ries when they have wounded a tiger, fre- 

 quently dismount from Michauns and follow 

 him through the jungles. This I have never 

 known to take place ; however, it may have 

 happened. Whenever it has occurred, I 

 should think it must have been before dark, 

 or after day light in the morning. I cannot 

 think that any man would be so fool-hardy 

 as to be searching about in the dark through 

 thick cover for a wounded and enraged tiger, 

 for even in moon light, the eye cannot pene- 

 trate the thickets on account of the shade. 

 These animals are so tenacious of life, that 

 they often require many balls to enter them 

 before they die. I knew an instance of a 

 tiger's receiving eighteen balls before he fell. 

 Like other animals of the feline species, their 

 vision in the night is much more perfect than 

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