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enraged brute inflicted so dreadful a laceration on his 
trunk, that a man’s arm, from the elbow downward, 
could have been laid in the wound. 
When the tiger was despatched it was placed upon 
the back of the victorious elephant, which seemed, to 
proceed under the burthen with conscious triumph; 
but so terrified were some of its companions that they 
would not approach their foe, even though it was dead. 
The victor however marched on in the pride of con- 
scious pre-eminence, and as soon as we regained our 
tents, for the day’s sport was now concluded, the 
lifeless enemy was unstrapped and immediately rolled 
upon the ground. The elephants formed a circle 
round it, though none could be induced to advance 
within a hundred yards of the gored body. At length 
the old elephant, in derision of their terror, as it 
seemed, raised the dead tiger upon one of its tusks 
and hurled it into the air with as much ease as if it 
had been a sucking cub. Away they scampered when 
they saw the dreaded projectile in rapid impulse to- 
wards them, and it was with considerable difficulty 
that the mahoots, after much coaxing, could induce 
them to return. 
Meanwhile the poor fellow who had been wounded 
continued to complain of great internal suffering, but 
his protestations were unheeded, as it is too frequently 
the habit of these people to affect suffering in order 
to excite compassion and thus obtain money. He 
was therefore little attended to, more especially as he 
happened to be a pariah ; for the unhappy wretches 
who bear that designation are looked upon with ab- 
horrence by the higher castes of Hindoos. His com- 
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