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mLB BEASTS AND THEIR WA YS 
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great cheer from our men, who had witnessed the 
flying shot from their position on the knoll, was 
highly satisfactory. 
We now turned back, and at length discovered a 
spot where the elephant could descend and cross the 
deep nullah. We then measured the distance^—82 
yards, as nearly as we could step it. My *577 solid 
bullet of pure lead had struck the tigress in the 
back of the neck; it had reduced to pulp several of the 
vertebrae, and entering the brain, it had divided itself 
into two portions by cutting its substance upon the 
hard bones of the broken skull, which was literally 
smashed to pieces. 
I found a sharp-pointed jagged piece of lead, 
representing about one-third of the bullet, protruding 
through the right eye-ball; the remaining two-thirds 
I discovered in the bones of the face by the back 
teeth, where it was fixed in a misshapen but compact 
mass among splinters of broken jaw. 
Berry s bullet had also struck the tigress, but pre¬ 
cisely in the same place, close to the root of the tail, 
where he had wounded the tiger a short time before. 
Upon arrival at the camp we skinned the animal, 
and took special pains to prove the effect of the 
unfortunate hollow bullet. This was conclusive, 
and a serious warning. 
The penetration was only an inch in depth. We 
washed the flesh in cold water, and searched most 
carefully throughout the lacerated wound, which 
occupied a very small area of about i inch. In 
this we found two pieces of the copper plug which 
