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peatedly cried out faa^ faa^ both to encourage 
the dogs, and to drive the animal from its 
hold ; but all my attempts were in vain : 
the animal was as much frightened as the 
dogs ; the former not daring to come forth, 
nor the latter to enter the bu£h. Among the 
dogs, however, I obferved fome maftifFs, on 
which I might have depended, had their 
ftrength been equal to their courage. My 
bitch alone, the fmalleft in the pack, always 
appeared at the head of the reft ; and alone 
penetrated a little way into the buih. As fhe 
knew my voice, llie was a good deal animated, 
and became much fiercer on that account. 
In the mean time the tiger fet up a dreads 
ful howling; and I every moment imagined 
that I faw him fpringing forward. The dogs, 
on the leaft motion which he made, retreated 
with precipitation ; and fcampered away as 
faft as their legs could carry them. Some 
mufket ihots, however, fired at random, at 
length determined the animal ; he inftantly 
flarted up : and this fudden apparition was a 
fignal for every body to decamp. John Slaber 
himfelf, who, formed like a Hercules, might 
have grappled with the animal, and ftrangled 
him 
