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we all joined; which drove the brute oft' 

 grunting and growling 1 horribly. I have 

 since heard tigers make the same kind of 

 grunt, therefore 1 now believe it was a tiger; 

 Though at the time the circumstance hap- 

 pened I supposed it to be a bear, which was 

 the cause of my being less alarmed than I 

 should otherwise have been. It was a cau- 

 tion to me never again to ride on horseback 

 at night on such a road. 



One day when I was driving a small cover 

 for game assisted by the natives with some 

 terriers and grey -hounds; more with the inten- 

 tion of coursing than shooting, the dogs came 

 out of it, running towards me, with their tails 

 between their legs, as if they had been fright- 

 ened, and when urged again to go into the 

 cover, they came closer to me, and I could not 

 by any means induce them to quit my heels ; 

 which clearly indicated that some large animal 

 of prey was there. I therefore, ordered all the 

 people to be instantly called out of the cover, 

 and to be assembled on the plain. On mus- 



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