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pursuit of a tiger in this way. They surround a large tract 

 of country, and draw gradually together till the animal is 

 enclosed in a compact ring of armed men. When he sees 

 there is no escape he generally makes a spring, and is 

 received on a dozen spears, and almost instantly stabbed 

 to death. The skin of an animal thus killed is, of course, 

 worthless, and in this case the skull, which I had begged 

 Mr. Ball to secure for me, was hacked to pieces to divide 

 the teeth, which are worn as charms. 



After a week at Wonosalem, I returned to the foot of 

 the mountain, to a village named Djapannan, which was 

 surrounded by several patches of forest, and seemed alto- 

 gether pretty well suited to my pursuits. The chief of 

 the village had prepared two small bamboo rooms on 

 one side of his own courtyard to accommodate me, and 

 seemed inclined to assist me as much as he could. The 

 weather was exceedingly hot and dry, no rain having 

 fallen for several months, and there was, in consequence, 

 a great scarcity of insects, and especially of beetles. I 

 therefore devoted myself chiefly to obtaining a good set of 

 the birds, and succeeded in making a tolerable collection. 

 All the peacocks we had hitherto shot had had short or 

 imperfect tails, but I now obtained two magnificent speci- 

 mens more than seven feet long, one of which I preserved 

 entire, while I kept the train only attached to the tail of 

 two or three others. When this bird is seen feeding on 



