8 A TIGER FOUND. 



easily forgotten by those who witness it 

 for the first time. 



Carefully we beat a most likely jungle, 

 full of deer, peafowl, partridges, &c. ; not a 

 shot was fired, lest the nobler game should 

 be disturbed. At last, despairing of a tiger, 

 we blazed away at everything, and had 

 capital shooting until tiffin re-assembled the 

 party ; one of whom, to our great distress, 

 was bi'ought in with his hand dreadfully 

 shattered by the bursting of his gun. 



Having sent him home under charge of 

 Doctor Bruce, one of the party, who kindly 

 went with him, and being satisfied he would 

 be well taken care of, we beat steadily on, 

 when three shots in quick succession were 

 fired on the right of the line. — " Dekho 

 sahib, dekho ! bagh ! "* screeched out by a 

 dozen voices, sent the whole line in pursuit ; 

 the elephants, urged to their utmost speed, 

 crashed through the jungle, screaming and 

 trumpetting as they smelt the tiger ; a 



* Look, Sii" ! look ! a tiger ! 



