280 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



(96 grains of powder per ball) is heard twice, accompanied by the 

 renewed roar of the tiger. 



" Whilst I am busy putting a couple of fresh cartridges in my 

 breech-loader, fire bursts from the right wing, led by E,., who 

 meanwhile has executed a flank movement on the enemy. Mov- 

 ing forward a few steps, I then managed to see the whole of the 

 tiger, who is already lying on his back, but still motioning menac. 

 ingly. All ten shots had struck, and fearful that the rug which 

 I had promised you for your bedroom would be riddled like a 

 sieve I ordered a cessation of lire and approached the tiger within 

 about 12 paces. He was still living, showed me his formidable 

 teeth, and contracted his claws convulsively. By general request 

 I thereupon sent a 'settler' through the enemy's head, who at once 

 sank back powerless, whilst the contracted claws were immediately 

 relaxed. 



" Then the natives raised a mad cry of delight. They yelled anc 

 fired salvoes of joy as long as they had powder ; and whilst E-= 

 and I, seated on the decaying trunk of a tree overgrown with moss 

 and ferns, smoked our cigarettes and divided our supply of tobacco 

 amongst all our comrades of the chase, litter-poles of bamboo were 

 cut and a rough sort of rope made from split rattan. 



" "We confessed to each other (E. and J. ), that this result of the 

 hunt far exceeded our expectation ; for when in the morning we got 

 on our horses in the rain and rode up more or less numbed, with the 

 prospect of all traces being washed away, the hope was certainly 

 very small. 



" Id descending the mountain we marched, with the tiger car- 

 ried by four men in front, in the manner of a triumphal procession 

 through the Tji Enggang hampoeng, where lives the owner of the 

 herd of karbouivs, so many of which had been eaten up by tigers 

 (you know that a week or so ago one of our buffaloes also, 

 which was bought for/52, shared the fate). 



" Wasn't there joy in Tji-Enggang ! 



