he gave of his actual presence was, by a tre- concluded he had stolen off, and the party were long and not fifty broad. A party of sportsmen There was one remarkable instance of an after having sprung upon a bullock during the there was no appearance of the tiger, it was gone to the other side, and the first indication was soon found he had shifted his berth, and night, and feasting upon him, was in the dawn being collected to kill him, the ravine was ing to peep into the ravine where he could see deep wooded ravine not two hundred yards mendous roar within ten feet of the place where of the morning seen to enter a small but 56 FALLS OF THE CAVERY several persons were standing immediately over and sounding horns of every description. As with great confidence and safety. neath the bank where he stood, three muskets were then fired but missed him, and the party enormous tiger killed in the Neilgherries, who, into the smallest compass lying directly under- going away, but one of the attendants happen- some distance into it, beheld the beast screwed collected for the purpose of destroying him. It drawn by firing blank cartridge down each side, like Falstaff's prince, may be then approached