78 THE SOTAZ TIGER OF BENGAL. 



across the plain. We were off after him as quickly 

 as possible, the race who should be first. B. came 

 up with him ra the long grass and rolled him over. 

 He picked himself up immediately, and made a 

 charge right at the elephants. B. gave him another 

 shot. I also gave him a couple of barrels, and he 

 was secured ; just as I fired he was close under the 

 elephants, his eyes glaring, mouth open, ears well 

 back, looking awfully wicked and determined, but 

 he was too much crippled by B.'s shot to spring. 

 My elephant again made an attempt to bolt, but this 

 time was not so bad, only going a few yards ; by the 

 time I got back to the spot the tiger was dead. We 

 padded them, and returned to our camp, which was 

 pitched at a dreary, desolate-looking spot, called Chel- 

 hua, not more than two or three miles from the old 

 ground, being only just across the plain on the 

 opposite side of the river. After dinner we skiuned 

 and measured the tigers by candle-light. The big 

 one as he lay, before the skin was taken off, was 

 9 feet 6 inches ; the smaU. one 8 feet." 



" March 2Qth. — We entered the forest for a short 

 distance, and before noon had padded a beautiful 

 full-grown tigress. We beat her out of a small 

 bhagar (swamp). She broke cover a long way ahead 

 of us, and concealed herself in the long grass in an 

 open plain, where we came up with her. B. got the 

 first shot at her. Off she went again, we all follow- 

 ing as hard as piadahs and moogries could make the 

 elephants go. Suddenly I saw D.'s elephant stop, 



