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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER VII
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Next morning his remains were discovered, consisting only of a few mangled bones.

The Waidono had got together about seven hundred men, and were in chase of the animal, which, I afterwards heard, they found and killed.

They only use spears when in pursuit of a tiger in this way.

They surround a large tract of country, and draw gradually together until the animal is enclosed in a compact ring of armed men.

When he sees there is no escape he generally makes a spring, and is received on a dozen spears, and almost instantly stabbed to death.


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