Outing . on con fucili inloro mani. Questi talloni portano tutti archi e ar-rows, con i quali possono uccidere un uomo atda cinquanta a sessanta yarde, le punte di acciaio di arrowrading loro circa sei tootto pollici lunghi e circa un inchwide e molto tagliente. Li usano, non solo per sparare bestie selvagge e uccelli, ma per tagliare via piccole giunglequando passando attraverso la spessa copertura. Quando tutti erano seduti tranquillamente ho camminato protetto dai fucili dei miei amici, e ha chiamato fuori che qualsiasi uomo placinghis freccia sulla stringa sarebbe atonce tiro. Allora sono andato ed ho assicurato i theringleaders, li ha legati in su ed ho inviato il themin carica

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Outing . on with rifles intheir hands. These Bheels all carry bows and ar-rows, with which they can kill a man atfrom fifty to sixty yards, the arrowshaving steel tips to them some six toeight inches long and about an inchwide and very sharp. They use them, not only for shooting wild beasts andbirds, but to cut away small junglewhen passing through thick cover. When all were quietly seated I walkedout protected by the rifles of my friends, and called out that any man placinghis arrow on the string would be atonce shot. I then went and secured theringleaders, tied them up, and sent themin charge of some policemen from thevillage to the magistrate of the district, who punished them for threatening mylife. The tigress measured 9ft. 7m. fromthe end of nose to tip of tail beforebeing skinned. The skin after being stripped fromthe body can very easily be stretcheda foot or more, which accounts for theabnormally large tigers so frequentlyread about, the skins being measuredafter being- stretched. n^xinu. IT was forty degrees below zero, butthe sky was cloudless. The fullmoon shone with icy serenity, whileall the constellations were outlinedm the blue dome, and midway acrossthe sky, like a band of snow-flakes, stretched the Milky Way. The little prairie town might havebeen a city of the dead, so desertedwere its streets, so mysterious the shad-ows, with here and there a snowdrift, rising like a mound above a grave. The river was frozen to its bottom.One or two uncared-for boats werefrozen to the banks. Close by thesewas a nondescript arrangement, lookingmore like a miniature canal-boat thananything else, and it alone showed signsof habitation, for a lantern swung toand fro m the doorway of the cabin. The moon looked down upon the town-hall, and upon the mill and school-house, both far away on the edge of the town, with its eager ambition and expectationso to grow that its distant academic hallwould be in the very center of popula-tion. She also looked down upon theskating-rink, an

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