128 THE TIGER. 
also swims well, holding his trunk above 
the surface. Some of the party remain 
the bank, while others, mounted on their ek' 
phants, plunge into the river in pursuit 
d 
their game. The sport, even when pursued 
this manner, is extremely dangerous, the tig^^j 
sometimes boldly attacking the elephants, 
striving to get at their riders. 
The late Sir John Day, after relating 
particulars of one of these hunts, when sevet^ 
ladies were of the party and four tigers 
killed, concludes his account with the folio''' 
ing affecting incident : — “ An old wom*^"' 
looking earnestly at the largest tiger, pointi"!’ 
at times to his tusks, and at times lifting j 
fore-paws, and viewing his talons, her furrov''^^ 
cheeks bathed in tears, in broken and 
ing tones narrated something to a little cifO^^ 
composed of three Bramins and a youO^ 
woman with a child in her arms. No 
misery could pierce the phlegm and apathy ^ 
