120 VIOLENT HAIL STORM. 



the sky, from which some hail fell, so large as 

 to compel me to take shelter under a tree. 

 The shower passed off in a few minutes, 

 when I pursued my journey, and had no( 

 proceeded above a mile., lie-fore I perceived 

 that the hail had fallen very thick, nearly of 

 the same size, making impressions on the 

 road, as large as the prints of musket ball, 

 weighing an ounce each. On my arrival at 

 a village two or three miles in advance, 

 where rny tent was pitched, I learnt from the 

 inhabitants, that the hail had fallen there so 

 thick, as to blind many of their cattle. The 

 vegetables on the ground were all beaten 

 down, and two hares were brought to me that 

 had been killed by it. I had no sooner taken 

 my breakfast, than I heard a great noise of 

 instruments and men, and on enquiring the 

 cause, was informed, that the villagers were 

 gone to drive a tiger from a deer that he had 

 just killed near the village. Soon after, I 

 heard the roaring of the tiger, which contin- 

 ued for a quarter of an hour, with very little 

 intermission ; and from the sound it appeared 



