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[Kanda H. <nu...@k-...>]

Of encountering a tiger--a cobra--we hardly knew what, but assuredly
something terrible, since it had been sufficient to cause such evident
emotion in our usually self-contained comrade. But neither tiger nor
cobra was visible--nothing but Cameron pointing with ghastly, haggard
face and starting eyeballs at something we could not see. "'Cameron!
Cameron' cried I, seizing his arm, "'for heaven's sake, speak! What is
the matter?' "Scarcely were the words out of my mouth when a low, but
very peculiar sound struck on my ear, and Cameron, dropping his pointing
hand, said in a hoarse, strained voice, 'There! you heard it? Thank God
it's over' and fell to the ground insensible. "There was a momentary
confusion while we unfastened his collar, and I dashed in his face some
water which I fortunately had in my flask, while another tried to pour
brandy between his clenched teeth; and under cover of it I whispered to
the man next to me (one of our greatest sceptics, by the way),
'Beauchamp, did _you_ hear anything?' "'Why, yes,' he replied, a curious
sound, very; a