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at Doongal is from the "East India Government Gazette." 

 "There were five tigers killed by the party, besides one 

 bear killed, and another wounded; a wolf, a hyaena, a panther, 

 a leopard, and some immense rock and cobra capella snakes. 

 Among the occurrences during the excursion, some were of a 

 peculiar and pathetic nature. The first happened to a poor 

 Bunnia, or dealer, of the village of Doongal, who had been 

 to the city of Hydrabad, to collect some money, and who 

 was returning, after having gathered together a small sum, 

 when on the way, a little beyond the cantonment of Secun- 

 derabad, he saw an armed Paeon seated, and apparently a 

 traveller in the same direction. After mutuaJ inquiries, the 

 Paeon told the Bunnia he was going to the same place; and, 

 as the Bunnia was glad to have somebody to accompany 

 him, he gave him a part of his victuals ; and, on their way, 

 they mutually related their histories. The Bunnia innocently 

 mentioned the object of his visit to the city, and the fact 

 of his returning with the money he had collected; this im- 

 mediately raised the avarice of the Paeon, who decided in 

 his mind to kill the poor Bunnia in a suitable place, and 

 strip him of his money. They proceeded together, with this 

 design in the mind of the Paeon, until they came to a place 

 where the ravages of the tiger were notorious, and he prepared 

 to kill the Bunnia; and while he was struggling with him, 

 and in the act of drawing his sword to slay him, a tiger 

 sprang upon the Paeon, and carried him off, leaving his shield 

 and sword, which the Bunnia carried to Doongal, as trophies 

 of retributive justice in his favour. The next victim was the 

 wife of a Bimjarra. They were resting under a tree, when a 

 tiger sprang up, and seized the woman by the head. The 

 husband, from mere impulse to save his wife, held her by the 

 legs ; and a struggle ensued between the tiger pulling her by 

 the head, and the man by the legs, until the issue, which 

 could not be doubted, when the tiger carried off the woman. 

 The man seemed to be rather partial to his wife, and devoted 



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