It was the weight upon him which had crushed Charlie into a state of insensibility.

Here he had lain, for four or five minutes, before Hossein could get the frightened natives to return, and assist him to lift the great carcass from his master's body.
Upon examination, it was found that two of the three bullets first fired had taken effect.

One had broken the tiger's shoulder, and lodged in his body.

The other had struck him fairly on the chest, and had passed within an inch or two of his heart.
"I thought," Ramajee Punt said, as he viewed the body, "that one of his legs must have been rendered useless.

That was why he lay quiet so long, in spite of our efforts to turn him out." Charlie was too much hurt to walk, and a litter was speedily formed, and he was carried back to the camp, where his arrival in that state excited the most lively lamentations on the part of Tim.