nimals which we had to encounter were large fierce black pigs,
leopards, jackals, tigers, mountain cats, and others which I have no
name for--and in spite of the ferocity of many of these animals when
they bounded out, they were met with such a shower of javelins, or
transfixed by the strong stabbing-spears of the warriors, that few
escaped, and they rarely did any mischief. One day, however, the
beaters having just entered a thicket, Whyna, who was eager for the
sport, and plied within the circle with the other hunters, hearing a
rustling in the jungle, went to the verge of it, to be the first to
strike the animal which came out. As usual, I was close to her, when a
large tiger burst out, and she pierced him with her javelin, but not
sufficient to wound the animal so severely as to disable him. The
tiger turned, and I drove my spear into his throat. This checked him,
as it remained in, but in a spring which he gave the handle broke
short off, and although the iron went further in, our danger was
imminent. Whyna ran, and so did I, to escape from the beast's fury;
for, although after I had wounded it with my spear, we had both
retreated, we were not so far, but that in two or three bounds he
would have been upon us. My mistress was as fleet as the wind, and
soon passed me, but as she passed me she caught me by the hand, and
dragged me along at a pace that with difficulty I could keep my legs.
The surrounding hunters alarmed at her danger, and knowing what they
had to expect from the mercy of the old king if she was destroyed by
the animal, closed in between us and the tiger, and after a fierce
combat, in which some were killed and many wounded, they despatched
him with their spears. The head of the animal, which was of unusual
size, was cut off and carried home to the old king in triumph; and
when he heard of the danger that Whyna had been in, he caressed her
with tears, and I could not help saying that the old wretch had some
heart after all. Whyna told the king that if I had not pierced the
animal with my spear, and prevented his taking his first spring, she
should have lost her life, and the monster grinned a ghastly smile at
me, which I presume he meant for either approbation or gratitude.

At other times the chase would be that of the multitude of birds which
were to be found in the woods. The bow and arrow only were used, and
all I had to do now was to pick up all my mistress had killed, and
return her arrows--she