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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WA YS 
CHAP. 
would quickly dislodge a tiger. We now skinned 
our late enemy, while a messenger was started 
towards Moorwarra, 9 or 10 miles distant, to prepare 
the authorities for the reception of our wounded 
men in hospital. 
The skin having been taken off, we discovered a 
small hole close to the root of the tail, which had 
not been observed. Upon a close examination with 
the finger, I found minute fragments of lead, 
resembling very small shot flattened upon an anvil. 
The hole was not deeper than inch in the hard 
muscle of the rump, and the only effect of Berry s 
•577 hollow Express was to produce this trumpery 
wound, which had enraged the animal without 
creating any serious injury. It is necessary to 
explain that the bullet of this rifle was more than 
usually light and hollow ; but the want of penetrating 
power of the hollow projectile, and the dangerous 
results, were terribly demonstrated, notwithstanding 
the large charge of 6 drams of powder. 
A comparison of the effect of my *577 with the 
same charge of 6 drams, but with a solid bullet of 
ordinary pure lead weighing 648 grains, was very 
instructive. The first shot, when the tiger was 
bounding in retreat after it had charged the elephant, 
had struck the right flank, and as the animal was 
moving obliquely, the bullet had passed through the 
lungs, then, breaking the shoulder-bone, it was found 
in its integrity just beneath the skin of the shoulder 
upon the side opposite to that of entry ; it was very 
much flattened upon one side, as it had traversed an 
