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STORY OF A TIGER. 
me. The Muntjac Deer {Ceftf/ius muntjac) is also plentiful ; 
the native name for it is Kedang, and I managed to kill some 
of them amongst the high grass, but it was most difficult to 
take a correct aim. 
Tigers and leopards are very numerous, but owing to the 
circumstances mentioned above I never saw but one tiger in 
a wild state. Those kept in confinement were fine large 
fellows but lean and ragged in appearance. A very extra- 
ordinary story of a tiger was told ine which I believe to 
be perfectly true ; it took place a few months since and is 
well authenticated. At a village where we stopped it is the 
custom to put the buffaloes under the charge of the native- 
boys who take them but to their grazing ground in the 
morning and bring them back again in the evening. The 
boys generally choose one of the herd to ride upon, and the 
boy and the buffalo get much attached to each other. One 
morning a boy, whilst leading the herd was seized and carried 
off by a tiger. The pet buffalo and another immediately 
gave chase and made the tiger drop the boy, and as soon as 
he did so the pet buffalo ran up and stood over the boy 
remaining in this position til! the other buffalo had driven 
the tiger well into the jungle. The poor boy was severely 
bitten in the shoulder but eventually recovered. The tiger 
was pursued and killed by the natives. Although they rather 
object to injure a tiger that has done no barm, the moment 
one attacks a human being or one of their cattle, they turn out 
en masse, shew most determined and persevering courage and 
rarely return without their victim. 
Peacock and jungle fowl are extremely plentiful the 
peacocks giving us capital practice with the ride. We 
succeeded in bagging a good many. 
