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monkeys in the trees overhead on each bank I knew 

 what to expect. I clambered up a boulder of rock, 

 from whence I could see the tiger going round and 

 round evidently quite blind, for every now and then 

 he knocked his head against stones and bushes, when 

 he would give a short angry roar, tear up the ground, 

 and bite at everything within his reach. I saw at 

 a glance how matters were, so stealing gently up 

 I aimed just behind the shoulder, and the ball passing 

 through the heart immediately put him out of his 

 misery, for he sprang high into the air and dropped 

 stone dead. On examination I found the whole of 

 the upper part of the face was blown to pieces and 

 both eyes destroyed with the effect of my first shots, 

 indeed the head was a mass of congealed blood, 

 none of the features being distinguishable ; however, 

 such is the tenacity of life in the feline race that he 

 managed even in this condition to make his way 

 for upwards of half a mile although totally blind. 



A whistle brought up my followers, and we imme- 

 diately commenced denuding the tiger of his spoils, 

 in which operation we were overtaken by darkness, 

 but by lighting a huge fire we managed to accomplish 

 our purpose, and afterwards made the best of our 



way to the tents, where I found B and D 



deeply interested in exploring the interior of a huge 

 marrow-pie, the former having that morning killed 

 a fine nilghau within a few hundred paces of our 



