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 nd the account, as given by an eye-witness, is s follows: "We went (says the narrator) on hore on Sangar Island, to shoot deer, of which we saw innumerable tracks, as well as of tigers: e continued our diversion till nearly three clock; when, sitting down by the side of a ngle to refresh ourselves, a roar like thunder as heard, and an immense tiger seized our unrtunate friend, poor Munro, and rushed again to the jungle, dragging him through the cikest bushes and trees, every thing giving ay to its monstrous strength; a tigress accomnied his progress. The united agonies of rror, regret, and fear, rushed at once upon us. fired on the tiger; he seemed agitated. My mpanion fired also; and in a few moments er this, our unfortunate frind came up to us, thed in blood. Every medical assistance was n; and he expired in the space of twenty-r hours, having received such deep wounds m the teeth and claws of the animal, as rened his recovery hopeless. A large fire, coning of ten or twelve whole trees, was blazing r us at the time this accident took place, and or more of the natives were with us. The man mind can scarcely form any idea of this ne of horror. We had but just pushed our t from this hateful shore, when the tigress de her appearance, almost raging mad, and ained on the sand all the while we continued ight."

n the beginning of the last century, a comy, seated under the shade of some trees near