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tlnis siulclcnly coming upon our precious victim, my lieart beat very !iii;h, 

 and, for a second, I wislied myself far enough oil'; but curiosity, and the 

 eagerness of the chase, put fear out of my head in a minute. Tlic tiger 

 made a cliarge at the ^Nluckna, and tlicn ran back int(,) the jungle. ]Mr. 

 A\'ilder then j>ut his elephant, in, and drove him out at the opposite side. 

 He charged over the plain away from us, and Wilder fired two balls at 

 him, but knew not whether tiny took effect. The bush in which he was 

 found was one on the west bank of one of those little half dry ponds of 

 which I have spoken. Mr. Barton and I conjecturing that, as there was 

 no other thick cover near, he would prolialjly soon return, took our stand in 

 the centre oi' the open space. In a minute the tiger ran into the bushes on 

 the cast side. I saw him quite plain. A\'e immediately put our elephant 

 into the bushes, and poked about, till the horsemen, who were reconnoitrin"- 

 roimd the outsiiK' of the whole jungle, saw him slink imder the bushes to the 

 nortli side. Ililher we followed him, and from thence traced him, by his 

 growling, back to the outer part of the eastern bushes. Here he started 

 out just before the trunk of our elephant, with a tremendous growl or grunt, 

 and made a charge at another elephant farther out on the plain, rctreatiu"' 

 again immediately under cover. Frazer fired at him, but wc suppose 

 without effect ; and he called to us for our elephant to pursue him into his 

 cover. 



" ^^'itll S(nnc difficulty we made our way to the inside of the southern 

 bushes ; and, as we were looking through the thicket, we perceived beau 

 tiger slink away under them. ]\Ir. Carton fired, and hit him a mortal 

 blow about the shoulder or back, for he instantly was checked, and my 

 !;all, which Ibllowed the same instant, tlu'cw him down. AA'e two then 

 discharged our whole artillery, which originally consisted of two duuble- 

 l>arrclled guns, loaded with slugs, and a pair of pistols. ]Most of them took 

 effect, as we could discover by his wincing, for he was not above ten yards 

 from us at any time, and at one moment, when the elephant chose to take 

 fright and turn his head round, away from the beast, running his haimches 

 almost into the bush, not five. By this time A^'illiam Frazer had come 

 round, and discharged a few balls at the tiger, which lay looking at us, 

 grinning and growling, his ears thrown back, but unaljle to stir. A pistol 

 fired by me shiittcred his lower jaw-bone ; and inuncdiately, as danger of 

 approaching him was now o^■er, one of the villagers, with a match-lock, 

 went close to him, and applying the nnizzle of his piece to the nape of his 

 neck, shot him dead, and put him out of his pain. The people then dragged 

 him out, and we dismounted to look at him, pierced through and through ; 

 yet one could not contemplate him without satisfaction, as we were told 

 that he had long infested the high road, and carried ofl' many passengers. 



