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had previously killed and eaten two people, and was accompanied 

 by two young cubs, went up to one of the huts in the middle of 

 the group, pushed open the door, entered the hut, stepped over 

 the first sleeper, and seized the next one by the throat, causing 

 instantaneous death. 



"But to return to the Mundali tigress. We have said before that 

 by a strange fatality her visits and ours to Mundali always coincided. 

 On the 7th of May, 1889, we reached Mundali in company with the 

 Forest School students, who were on their hill tour. On our way 

 we had been informed that she had just been killing two women in 

 Rama Sarai, and so we congratulated ourselves that she was well 

 out of our way. Nevertheless we warned the students and their 

 servants to be careful. One party of four European students pitched 

 their tents on a spur about 80 yards above the place where our 

 orderly's tent had been attacked six years ago. Towards 10 o'clock 

 that night, the moon being up, one of the students happened to 

 come out of his tent, when only eight paces off he observed a large 

 animal standing: at the same distance from their kitchen tent. He 

 at once called to the others. The tigress, for she it was, finding 

 herself observed before she was ready to do any damage, fled down 

 the hill and disappeared. The students could hear the thuds of her 

 footsteps as she sprang down the slope. 



"The next night the same students, expecting another visit, sat 

 up for the brute ; but instead of turning up again at our camp, she 

 killed some sheep belonging to shepherds, whom only four days 

 previously she had follwed up from Rama Sarai to a high-level graz- 

 ing- ground about 1^ miles above Mundali. One of these shepherds 

 she had attempted to carry off two days previously, but missing 

 her spring she only clawed his back and was driven off by the father 

 of the young man striking her on the head with a stick, while a 

 plucky large Bhutia dog seized her by the neck. This sudden double 

 attack was too much for her, and she made off as fast as she came. 

 Two of our students sat up the following night over the dead sheep, 

 but although she prowled about the place and gave chase to several 

 buffaloes, she did not come to the kills. 



" The night of the 11th was dark and rainy, and we were sure the 

 tigress would take advantage of this circumstance. And so she did. 

 There was a herd of buffaloes just above our camp. Here towards 

 morning, as one of the hordsmeu came out alone from the hut in 

 which about ten of them were living together, the tigress suddenly 



