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nurkool swamp, where nilgye, spotted deer, and 

 other game in abundance were seen, the search was 

 abandoned, and a general heat commenced, during 

 which a fair amount of game was bagged, among 

 others, an enormous python. It was so heavy that 

 it required six or eight men to lift it on to the pad 

 elephant. The line now beat on in an opposite 

 direction, through the forest. The firing was pretty 

 brisk, and the line had crossed to the other side of 

 the patch of forest, when one of the pad elephants 

 suddenly put up a small tiger, which bounded into 

 the open, and crossed the plain. It was thought by 

 some that a tigress was seen at the same time. For 

 a moment he was lost sight of, but after a long 

 stampede across the plain, during which time he had 

 doubled back into a patch of long grass among a 

 herd of tame buffaloes, by whom he got considerably 

 knocked about, he was overtaken and killed by 

 many shots. A patch of mud, in which he got 

 entangled, was his destruction, as it prevented his 

 escape to the forest, and allowed the elephants to 

 come up. He tried to fight, but in vain, and fell, 

 riddled with bullets. This was evidently one of the 

 cubs seen in the morning. The first was 6 feet 6 

 inches, and the second 6 feet 9 inches long. The 

 camp soon after this returned to the station. 



PARDON AND SON, PKINTEBS, PATERNOSTalt liOW, LO^JDON. 



