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were incapable of giving the poor man the 

 least assistance. We galloped off to the near- 

 est village as fast as possible, assembled as 

 many people as we could collect, with drums 

 and other noisy instruments, and then with 

 our guns loaded on horseback, we followed the 

 track of the tiger, by the blood of his victim 

 and the locks of hair which caught the thorns 

 as he was dragged along, for more than a 

 mile. I then saw something under a large 

 banyan tree that was surrounded by bushes; 

 It had not the appearance of the tiger 

 though I expected he was there, and with 

 more madness than prudence I galloped 

 through the bushes with my gun presented to 

 the object ; fortunately for me, it was only the 

 remains of the poor man. The tiger I sup- 

 pose hearing the noise we made as we ap- 

 proached, and having glutted his appetite, had 

 skulked away into the deep ravines that were 

 near. 



He had devoured the whole of the poor 

 man's entrails, and the flesh of one leg and 



