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computed that the fat alone amounted to 70 lbs. 
avoirdupois. The tiger was certainly upwards of 
500 lbs. 
I found the *577 bullet of pure lead had entered 
exactly at the shoulder-joint, which it had smashed 
to atoms, carrying splinters of bone through the 
lungs ; passing through the ribs upon the opposite 
side, it had smashed the left shoulder, and was fixed 
beneath the skin, expanded like a mushroom. 
There was no danger to any person employed in 
this hunt, but I have described it as an apt example 
of a cunning tiger, which escaped so many attempts 
upon its life that it was regarded as “ uncanny.” 
My servant Thomas was quite delighted, as he 
had offered to bet that, “devil or no devil, his 
master’s rifle would kill him, if he got a shot.” 
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