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that he was going towards the Ghaut. The 

 people brought the deer to me as a present; 

 It was a large buck., and the tiger had only 

 devoured a part of his inside. 



A Battalion of Sepoys were exercising on 

 the parade at Chittrah, the commanding offi- 

 cer now Major General Sir Dyson Marshal, 

 with Captain Kelly the adjutant being pre- 

 sent ; when a large buck carne from the jungle 

 straight towards them, and took his stand 

 with his Tail against a tree, about sixty 

 yards, distant, looking stedfastly at them. 

 The General ordered some of the soldiers to 

 advance and~ fire at him ; they approached 

 very near, and killed him ; this they might 

 have accomplished with their bayonets,, for 

 the poor creature came to them for protection, 

 having recently received several scratches in 

 his side from a tiger, and his wounds were still 

 bleeding-. 



Some idea may be formed how numerous 

 the tiger's must have been at one period in 



