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in the sun ; and, as we approached at the distance 
of about twenty paces, he instantly arose : but see- 
ing many of us well armed, he climbed with agility 
up the other part of the mountain, disturbed, but 
not afraid. He appeared to us nearly as high as a 
middle-sized pony. As we were accompanied by 
six chosen sepoys, it is more than probable we 
might have killed him ; but we were incumbered 
with horses, and on a stony road, not above eight 
or ten feet wide, at the edge of which was a pre- 
cipice : it would, therefore, have been very impru- 
dent to have attacked an animal, which, though 
wounded, would not have fallen unrevenged. 
“ We had not gone above ten paces from the 
place where the tiger had lain, before we saw a 
tolerably large dog, with long hair, come from be- 
hind a rock, the master of which had perhaps been 
devoured: the poor animal jumped upon us, caressed 
us exceedingly, and would not leave us.” 
The following narrative by Mr. Pennant will 
serve to show that the tiger may be deterred from 
his purpose at the moment he is about to seize his 
prey. I was informed, says this gentleman, by 
very good authority, that in the beginning of this 
century, some gentlemen and ladies, being on a 
party of pleasure under a shade of trees on the 
banks of a river in Bengal, observed a tiger pre- 
paring for its fatal spring : one of the ladies, with 
amazing presence of mind, laid hold of an um- 
brella, and furled it full in the animal’s face ; which 
