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violence of the sliock, that my servant, who sat bcliind, was thrown out, 

 and one of my guns went overboard. The struggles of my elephant to 

 crush his still resisting foe, who had fixed one paw on his eye, were so 

 energetic, that I was ol)liged to hold vn witii all my strength, to keep 

 myself in the houdaii. The second barrel, too, of the gun which I still 

 retained in my hand, went off in the scuffle, the ball passing close to the 

 mahout's ear, whose situation, poor fellow, was anything but cn\iablc. 

 As soon as my elephant was prevailed upon to leave the killing pait of the 

 business to the sportsmen, they gave the roughly used tiger the coup da 

 (/race. It was a very fine female, with the most beautiful skin I ever 

 saw. 



The animated description given below is from the pen of a lady who par- 

 ticipated in the adventure. "We had elephants, guns, balls, and all other 

 necessaries pre^iared, and about seven in the morning we set off. The soil 

 was cxaetly like tliat we had gone over last night : our course lay north- 

 west. The jungle was generally composed of corinda bushes, which were 

 stunty and thin, and looked like ragged thorn bushes ; nothing could be 

 more desolate in ap2)earance ; it seemed as if we had got to the farthest 

 limits of cultivation or the haunts of man. At times the greener bimchcs 

 of jungle, the usual abodes of the beasts of prey during the daytime, and 

 tiic few Juits scattered here and there, which could hardly be called villages, 

 seemed like islands in the desert waste around us. V\'c stopped near two 

 or three of these green tufts, which gcnerall}' surrounded a lodgment of 

 water, or little p<inds, in the midst of the sand. 



"The way in which these ferocious animals are traced out is very curious, 

 and, if related in England, would scarcely be credited. A numi)er of 

 unarmed, half naked villagers go pr\"ing from side to side of the l)ush, just 

 as a boy in England would look after a stray sheep, or peep after a bird's 

 nest. Where the jungle was too thick for them to see through, the ele- 

 jihants, putting their trunks down into the Inish, forced their way through, 

 tearing up every thing by the roots before them. About foLu- miles from 

 our tents wc were all surrounding a bush, which might be some fifty yards 

 in circumference (all includes William Frazcr, alone, upon his great ele- 

 phant, ]\Ir. Barton and myself u[)on another crpially large, I\Ir. AMlder 

 upon another, and eight other elephants ; horsemen at a distance, and foot- 

 men peeping into the bushes). Our different elephants were each endeav- 

 oring to force his way through, when a great elephant, without a hondah on 

 his back, called ' JNIuckna,' a fine and nuich-esteemed kind of elejihant (a 

 male without large teeth), put up, from near the centre of the bush, a royal 

 tiger. In an instant Frazer called out, 'Xow, Lady H., be calm, bo 

 steady, and take a good aim : here he is ! ' I confess, at the moment of 



