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grown royal tigers sprung together from the same spot, where they 

 had sat in bloody congress. They ran diversely; but running 

 heavily, they all couched again in new covers within the same 

 jungle, and all were marked. We followed, having formed the 

 line into a crescent, so as to embrace either extremity of the jun- 

 gle: in the centre were the houdar (or state) elephants, with the 

 marksmen, and the ladies, to comfort and encourage them. In 

 one Mr. Zoffani with Mrs. Ramus, in the other Mr. Ramus with 

 Lady Day, led the attack; my brother and I supported them; 

 and we were followed by Major Bateman, Mr. Crispe, Mr. Long- 

 craft, and Mr. Van Europe, a Dutch gentleman. 



These gentlemen had each an elephant to himself. When we 

 had slowly and warily approached the spot where the first tiger lay, 

 he moved not until we were just upon him; when, with a roar that 

 resembled thunder, he rushed upon us. The elephants wheeled oft" 

 at once; and (for it is not to be described by any quadruped- 

 motion we know, I must therefore coin a term for the occasion) 

 shuffled off. They returned, however, after a flight of about fifty 

 yards, and again approaching the spot where the tiger had lodged 

 himself, towards the skirts of the jungle, he once more rushed 

 forth, and springing at the side of an elephant upon which three 

 of the natives were mounted, at one stroke tore a portion of the 

 pad from under them; and one of the riders, panic struck, fell off. 

 The tiger, however, seeing his enemies in force, returned, slow 

 and indignant, into his shelter; where, the place he lay in being 

 marked, a heavy and well directed fire was poured in by the 

 principal marksmen; when, pushing in, we saw him in the struggle 

 of death, and growling and foaming he expired. 



