THE TIGER. 59

at Doongal is from the “East India Government Gazette.”

“There were five tigers killed by the party, besides one
bear killed, and another wounded; a wolf, a hyzena, a panther,
a leopard, and some immense rock and cobra capella snakes.
Among the occurrences during the excursion, some were of a
peculiar and pathetic nature. The first happened to a poor
Bunnia, or dealer, of the village of Doongal, who had been
to the city of Hydrabad, to collect some money, and who
was returning, after having gathered together a small sum,
when on the way, a little beyond the cantonment of Secun-
derabad, he saw an armed Peon seated, and apparently a
traveller in the same direction. After mutual inquiries, the
Peon told the Bunnia he was going to the same place; and,
as the Bunnia was glad to have somebody to accompany
him, he gave him a part of his victuals; and, on their way,
they mutually related their histories. The Bunnia innocently
mentioned the object of his visit to the city, and the fact
of his returning with the money he had collected; this im-
mediately raised the avarice of the Pzeon, who decided in
his mind to kill the poor Bunnia in a suitable place, and
strip him of his money. They proceeded together, with this
design in the mind of the Pzeon, until they came to a place
where the ravages of the tiger were notorious, and he prepared
to kill the Bunnia; and while he was struggling with him,
and in the act of drawing his sword to slay him, a tiger
sprang upon the Peon, and carried him off, leaving his shield
and sword, which the Bunnia carried to Doongal, as trophies
of retributive justice in his favour. The next victim was the
wife of a Bunjarra. They were resting under a tree, when a
tiger sprang up, and seized the woman by the head. The
husband, from mere impulse to save his wife, held her by the
legs; and a struggle ensued between the tiger pulling her by
the head, and the man by the legs, until the issue, which
could not be doubted, when the tiger carried off the woman.
The man seemed to be rather partial to his wife, and devoted