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advantage, was surprising. She turned upon the per- 
son who approached to despatch her, with a ferocious 
activity, her jaws covered with foam, and champing 
with the most savage aspect of fury. A second shot 
broke the other hind leg, and she was now quite 
unable either to advance or retreat ; she nevertheless 
contrived to scramble into a ditch filled with tall 
jungle grass, which so entirely covered her that we 
lost sight of her for some time. As we could neither 
hear her moan nor see her stir, we began to imagine 
that she was dead and our hope of a griskin de- 
feated. At length a small dog belonging to one of 
our party roused her from her painful repose, when 
she inflicted upon the poor little creature a wound so 
severe as ultimately to cause its death. The grass 
was now soon plucked up, and the wounded quarry 
exposed. Although she could offer no effectual re- 
sistance, she nevertheless made astonishing efforts to 
escape, dragging herself forward into the grass, and 
using incredible exertions to wound her assailants. 
She literally sprang at them on her two stumps, 
evincing an indomitable determination not to die 
unavenged ; and it required great agility and cau- 
tion, on the part of our attendants, to defeat her des- 
perate purpose. 
The men attacked her with thick bamboos, and 
having broken one of her forelegs she was soon des- 
patched. It was now about noon, and, within five hours 
after, the flesh was in such a state of decomposition 
that it was impossible to dress it. The heat of the 
day had been extreme, and the severe bruises which 
the animal had received from the bamboos of our 
