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TIGER. 
usually weighs a thousand pounds, which is twice 
the weight of our black cattle ; from whence some 
idea may be formed of the enormous strength of this 
cruel and rapacious animal, which could run off with 
a creature twice its own weight with such apparent 
ease.” 
Tiger-hunting is followed in the East, among 
other amusements, and is not attended with so 
much danger as we should imagine from the attack 
of so fierce an enemy. The hunters are mounted 
upon elephants, and well provided with fire-arms. 
In the Asiatic Annual Register for the year 1804, 
is a letter from a gentleman to his friend, giving an 
account of a hunting party of the late Nawab, Asuf- 
ud-Dowlah, where the writer, after having enu- 
merated the immense cavalcade of his excellency, 
describes the attack of a tiger in the following 
words : — “ The first tiger we saw and killed was in 
the mountains ; we went to attack him about noon ; 
he was in a narrow valley, which the Nawab sur- 
rounded with above two hundred elephants ; we 
heard him growl horribly in a thick bush in the 
middle of the valley. Being accustomed to the sport, 
and very eager, I pushed in my elephant; the fierce 
beast charged me immediately : the elephant, a 
timid animal, turned tail, and deprived me of the 
opportunity to fire. I ventured again, attended by 
two or three other elephants : the tiger made a 
spring, and nearly reached the back of one of the 
elephants, on which were three or four men : the 
elephant shook himself so forcibly, as to throw 
