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Channer and I were on the right bank of the 



ravine. The beat was up the ravine. Shortly 



after the beat started Wood, whose elephant 



was moving along the bed of the ravine, saw the 



tigress crouching on the sand, facing him at a 



short distance. He fired at her with a shot-gun 



loaded with ball, and the shot passed through 



one of her ears, which was evidently cocked 



forward. Subsequent examination showed that 



the bullet drilled a small round hole, the edges 



of which were not even reddened with blood. 



It was a close shave, but the animal was quite 



linjured and blood was not drawn. The tigress 



len appeared near Lumsden, who fired, and, as 



le subsequently said, knocked her over into the 



Ravine. Very shortly after this she appeared 



}n my side of the ravine. She walked quietly 



id quickly round a bush, and did not appear 



to be wounded, and I fired, hitting her with my 



Express on the near side, but rather far back. 



>he disappeared into the ravine and wandered 



"about there for a little time. Then Channer, 



who was shooting with a small-bore, high- velocity 



rifle, saw her and tired, and shortly after she 



was seen to be dead. Two bullet-holes were 



visible in the skin, one a small one in the back 



near the neck, and the other a large one in the 



near side. Lumsden was quite confident that 



he had hit the tigress and knocked her over, 



and suggested that the large hole in the side 



was the hole of exit of his bullet. Both the other 



sportsmen thought that the tiger was Lumsden's, 



and Channer did not claim a hit. There was 



much blood in the ravine, but it was impossible 



