62 TBE SOTAL TIGEE OF SENGAZ. 



him. He went about fifteen yards more in a series 

 of wild plimges, and then fell over, gave a kick or 

 two, and died. On examination he proved to he a 

 male, 9 feet 7 inches (skin stretched to 11 feet 

 3 inches) in length. The hall, an ordinary twelve- 

 bore round bullet, fired from a smooth bore with 3^ 

 drachms of No. 6 powder, had struck him about an 

 inch to the right of the spine, passed through the 

 right lung, struck the heart in the ventricular sep- 

 tum below the right auricle, and torn a huge hole 

 through the right ventricle, besides opening the left 

 into the right, then grazed the left lung and emerged 

 below, an inch and a half to the left of the mesial 

 line. The exit wound, both in the recent and in 

 the dried skin, was very decidedly smaller than that 

 of entrance, a phenomenon I have frequently ob- 

 served both in men and animals. In the heart, 

 however, the usual rule held good, and the aperture 

 of exit was twice the size of that of entrance. I 

 have frequently heard of such cases. A friend of 

 mine tells me that he has seen a tiger go 160 yards 

 with his heart ' blown to bits ' by a shell ; and a 

 second assures me that another wounded as mine was, 

 went 80 yards after attempting to pull him out of a 

 tree. My second bullet entered behind the left 

 elbow and the radius, or the beast might have gone 

 further than it did. As it was, he went nearly 

 fifty yards, and, although he died probably within a 

 minute, it might have been a very awkward minute 

 for me had he seen me. The moral of the case for 



