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himself to revenge her death,—forsook his cattle and prop-
erty,—resigned them to his brother, and offered his services
to be of the tiger-killing party, and strayed about the jungles,
until he was heard of no more.”

“A camel driver, who had been just married, was bringing
home his bride, when a tiger followed, and kept them in view
a great part of the road, for an opportunity to seize one of
them. The bride having occasion to alight, was immediately
pounced upon by the ferocious beast, and he scampered away
with her in his mouth. A shepherd was taken by a young
tiger, which was followed by the mother, a large tigress, and
devoured at a distance of two miles; and a Bunnia, or
dealer, from Bolarum, was seized returning from a fair. A
woman, with an infant about a year old, was captured by a
tiger; and the infant was found by the Puttal, or head of the
village, who brought it to his house. Some of the Company’s
elephants that were going for forage were chased by a tiger,
which was kept off by a spearman; and a comical chase of
chem was made up to Doongal, the elephants running before
the tiger, until they entered the village. It is said the lives
lost by these tigers amounted to about three hundred per-
sons in one year, within the range of seven villages; and
the destruction of cattle, sheep, and goats, was said to be
immense.”

An Intrepid Captain Brown in his “Natural History of

Hunter. Animals” tells a thrilling story of an adventure of
Lieutenant Collet, of the Bombay army, who having heard
that a very large tiger had destroyed seven inhabitants of an
adjacent village, resolved, with another officer, to attempt the
destruction of the monster. Having ordered seven elephants,
they went in quest of the animal, which they found sleeping
beneath a bush. Roused by the noise of the elephants, he
made a furious charge upon them, and Lieutenant Collet’s
elephant received him on her shoulder, the cther six having

_tumed about, and run off, notwithstanding the exertions of