TSE EOYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. 67 



The ease of Colonel H. has already been men- 

 tioned. A tigress at one bound, receiving a fatal 

 wound as she sprang, reached the elephant's head, 

 and seizing him, they came together to the ground. 

 Though severely wounded, he survived the injuries 

 for many years. 



Major B., when shooting in Central India on foot, 

 severely wounded a tiger, and though he retreated 

 immediately to the trunk of a fallen tree, was seized 

 by the arm by the infuriated brute, and dragged to 

 the edge of a nullah, down which they both rolled 

 into the stream at the bottom, where the tiger died, 

 but not before it had inflicted such serious wounds 

 as to render amputation of the Kmb necessary. This 

 daring sportsman happily survives, and fills a high 

 office under the Indian Q-overnment. 



The late Colonel S., a most distinguished soldier 

 and sportsman, when following a wounded tiger on 

 foot in the long grass, was suddenly seized and 

 carried off by the animal he was seeking. He 

 managed, however, to eifect his escape without 

 having received any very serious injury, and re- 

 joined his companion, who had deemed him lost. 



Mr. , when out snipe shooting with some 



companions in Bengal, was informed by the natives 

 of a village situated near a rice field, that some 

 large animal was in the vicinity, which, from their 



