generally surrounded a lodgment of water, or little ponds, in the midst of the sand.

"The way in which these ferocious animals are traced out is very curious, and, if related in England, would scarcely be credited. A number of unarmed, half-naked villagers, go prying from side to side of the bush, just as a boy in England would look after a strayed sheep, or peep after a bird's nest. Where the jungle was too thick for them to see through, the elephants, putting their trunks down into the bush, forced their way through, tearing up every thing by the roots before them. About four miles from our tents we were all surrounding a bush, which might be some fifty yards in circumference. (All includes William Fraser, alone upon his great elephant, Mr. Barton and myself upon another, equally large, Mr. Wilder upon another, and eight other elephants: horsemen at a distance, and footmen peeping into the bushes.) Our different elephants were each endeavouring to force his way through, when a great Elephant, without a houdah on his back, called Muckna,' a fine and much esteemed kind of elephant, (a male without large teeth,) put up, from near the centre of the bush, a royal tiger. In an instant Fraser called out, 'Now, Lady H-, be calm, be steady, and take a good aim, here he is.' I confess at the moment of thus suddenly coming upon our ferocious victim, my heart beat very high, and, for a second, I wished myself far enough off; but cu

riosity, and the eagerness of the chase, put fear out of my head in a minute; the tiger made a charge at the Muckna, and then ran back into the jungle. Mr. Wilder then put his elephant in, and drove him out at the opposite side. Ha charged over the plain away from us, and Wilder fired two balls at him, but knew not whether they took effect. The bush in which he was found was one on the west bank of one of those little half-dry ponds of which I have spoken. Mr. Barton and I conjecturing that, as there was no other thick cover near, he would probbably soon return, took our stand in the centre of the open space: in a minute the tiger ran into the bushes on the east side; I saw him quite plain we immediately put our elephant into the bushes; and poked about till the horsemen who reconnoitring round the outside of the whole jungle, saw him slink under the bushes to the north side hither we followed him, and from thence traced him by his growling, back to the outer part of the eastern bushes, Here he started out just before the trunk of our ele phant, with a tremendous growl or grunt, and made a charge at another elephant, further out on the plain, retreating again immediately under cover. Fraser fired at him, but we suppo¬ sed without effect; and he called to us for our elephant to pursue him into his cover.

"With some difficulty, we made our way through to the inside of the southern bushes, and

as we were looking through the thicket, we perceived beau-tiger slinking away under them. Mr. Barton fired, and hit him a mortal blow about the shoulder or back, for he instantly was checked; and my ball, which followed the same instant, threw him down. We two

then discharged our whole artillery, which originally consisted of two double-barrelled guns, loaded with slugs, and a pair of pistols. Most of them took effect, as we could discover by his wincing, for he was not above ten yards from us at any time, and at one moment, when the elephant chose to take fright, and turn his head round, away from the beast, running his haunches almost into the bush, not five. By this time William Fraser had come round, and discharged a few balls at the tiger, which lay looking at us, grinning and growling, his ears thrown back, but unable to stir. A pistol, fired by me, shattered his lower jaw-bone; and immediately, as danger of approaching him was now over, one of the villagers, with a match-lock, went close to him, and applying the muzzle of his piece to the nape of his neck, shot him dead, and put him out of his pain. The people then dragged him out, and we dismounted to look at him pierced through and through; yet one could not contemplate him without satisfaction, as we were told that he had infested the high road, and carried off many passengers. One hears of the roar of a tiger, and fancies it like that of a

bull; but, in fact, it is more like the grunt of a hog, though twenty times louder, and certainly one of the most tremendous animal noises one can imagine.

"Our tiger was thrown across an elephant, and we continued our course to the south-west. In a jungle, at the distance of about two miles, we started a wild hog, which ran as hard as it could from us, pursued by a Soowar, without success. Soon after, we stated, in a more open part of the plain, a herd of the nilghau. This animal is in appearance something between a horse, a cow, and a deer; delicate in its legs and feet like the latter, of a bluish-gray colour, with a small hump on its shoulders, covered with a mane. Innumerable hares and partridges started up on every side of us. The flat, dreary waste still continued; though here and there, at the distance of some miles, we met with a few ploughed lands, and boys, tending herds of buffaloes.

"In a circuit of about sixteen miles, we beat up many jungles, in the hope of rousing a lion, but without success. One of these jungles in particular, was uncommonly pretty; it had water in the midst of it, in which was a large herd of buffaloes cooling themselves. We returned home at three P. M.; and after a dish of tea, I fell asleep, and did not awake till eleven at night.

"On the 23d, we again set off at nine A. M.

in quest of three lions, which we heard were in a jungle about six miles to the north-east of our tents. The ground we passed over was equally flat with that of yesterday, but it was ploughed, When we came to the edge of the jungle, not unlike the skirts of a coppice in England, and which was principally composed of stumpy peeple-trees, and the willow-like shrub I observed the other evening, Fraser desired us to halt, whilst he went on foot to obtain information. The people from the neighbourhood assembled round us in crowds, and in a few minutes all the trees in the jungle appeared to be crowned with men, placed there by Fraser for observation. After waiting nearly an hour, we were at last sent for. We found him posted just by the side of the great canal, which was cut by the Emperor Firose, across the country, from the Jumna, at Firozebad, to Dehlee, for the purpose of supplying the cultivation of this part of the country with water. Fraser had received intelligence of both a lion and a tiger being in this jungle, which now chokes up this canal. He desired Barton and myself to go down upon our elephant, and watch the bed of the canal; moving slowly towards the south, while he should enter and advance in the contrary direction; the rest of the party were to beat the jungle above where it was very thick, that in most places it would have been impossible for an elephant to attempt to force a passage through it.

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