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corpse and crouched low to the ground, with her head 

 down, her back arched, and her tail lashing her 

 heaving flanks. At this moment, before she could 

 make a spring that might have proved fatal, carefully 

 aiming between her eyes, which glared upon me like 

 balls of fire, I let drive she reared up full length on 

 her hind-legs, pawed the air, and fell back dead. 



Vengeance satiated, I went up to poor Ali, whom 

 I found shockingly mutilated ; his death must have 

 been instantaneous, as the tigress, with the first blow 

 of her paw, had crushed in the skull (for the brains 

 lay scattered about the place) and then made her teeth 

 meet in his throat and shoulder, breaking the arm in 

 two places, and lacerating the fleshy part of the thigh. 



B and the gang came up shortly afterwards, 



and long and loud were their lamentations, for Ali was 

 much liked by them all, and a great favourite with 

 his master, to whom he had ever proved a willing and 

 devoted follower. 



We bound up his head, covered his face with a 

 cloth, and by the aid of our axes constructed a litter 

 of bamboos, on which we carried him towards the hut, 



where Yacoob Khan, Hassan, and Cassim, B 's 



" kidmudjar " (butler), who were also Mussulmen, per- 

 formed the last rites of " the Faithful ;" and we 

 buried him in a deep grave, under an overhanging 

 rock, near the lake in which the nose, whiskers, and 

 claws of the tigress had been previously thrown. 



