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made me start. He was a splendid beast in fine condition, 
having, I afterwards ascertained, killed many a bullock out 
of the herds that at certain seasons of the year are turned 
into the forests to graxe. His skin when stretched measured 
nine feet eleven inches ; not a particle of his Besh was thrown 
away, every portion of it was collected, and my men made a 
good business by selling it at 4d. per pound to the natives, 
who use it as medicine and who also believe that eating a 
portion of tiger's flesh will give them the courage of a tiger. 
FACE TO FACE. 
My friend Drury^ when with me at Peer-mund, had 
rather an exciting meeting with a tiger ; he was out one 
evening after a sambur and was cautiously creeping up to 
one, when a movement on^his left attracted his attention, and 
suddenly just close in front of him up poked a tiger's head out 
of the grass, and there they were face to face. No doubt the 
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