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and immediately perceived tliat liis companion's 

 elephant, a few hundred yards ahead of him, had 

 been seized by the other tiger, which was on its 

 head. The elep)iant, from fright and pain, being 

 nearly pulled to the ground, the occupant of the 

 howdah managed with great difficulty to keep his 

 seat — whilst holding on with one hand he contrived 

 to fire two shots with the other. This, with the 

 shaking of the elephant, which was much agi- 

 tated, dislodged the tigress, which crouched on the 

 ground, her eyes glaring, and was preparing for 

 another spring, when No. 2 came up, and gave her 

 the cotip de grdce. In this case the occupant of the 

 howdah had the narrowest escape of being thrown 

 out on to the enraged and wounded tigress. 



The following extracts are from a Journal kept during 

 a tiger-shooting expedition to the Oude Terai, in 

 1855, before the Mutiny, and previous to the 

 Annexation of Oude : — 



"March 19th, 1855. — ^We made our first entry 

 into the forest, a small part of the edge of which 

 we had to cross to arrive at a grassy plain on the 

 opposite bank of the Girwah, where the tigers had 

 been seen ; and on approaching the bank of the 

 river we passed over some recent footprints. 



"The outskirts of the forest are not dense, and 

 consist of the Sisoo — (Dalbergia sisoo), dak 

 (Butea frondosa),' catechu (Khair mimosa), semel 



