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of the men, but the tigress had already disappeared, and he merely 

 fired off his weapon in the direction in which she had gone, in order 

 to calm the fears of the men. We ourselves were on that eventful nio-ht 

 in camp at Mundali, only 5 miles from Lokhali, and the account wo 

 have given above accords in every particular not only with the infor- 

 mation given by Mr. Chill, but also with that given to us directly by 

 eye-witnesses, and by Dhan Singh, the headman of Lokhar, whom 

 we met last only a few days after the death of the tigress, 



ft There was a strange fatality which always brought the tigress to 

 Mundali while we were there. In 1833 we spent two months at 

 Mundali, during the whole of which time she kept within the immediate 

 neighbourhood. For several nights running she patrolled the road 

 running along the main bridge above Muudali, and also the bridle-path 

 connectng Mundali with that road. She often prowled round our camp 

 at night, on two occasions coming right inside it. The first time she 

 came, it was past midnight, and every one was asleep. Our orderly was 

 however, fortunately sleeping lightly, and was suddenly awakened by 

 the dull thuds of some heavy animal, like a buffalo (to use his own 

 words), galloping down the soft slope just above his shuldari- 

 Apresentiment of the tigress' approach made him snatch up a brand 

 from a large fire that was burning immediately outside the opening of 

 the tent, and at the same time to shout away at the top of his voice. 

 He had hardly begun doing this, when the flaps of the tent were 

 suddenly fluug open, and he found the brute glaring at him with only 

 the log fire between them. His shouting awoke the half-dozen fellow- 

 occupants of his tent, and between them they made such an infernal 

 hullaballoo, while he kept flourishing the fire-brand across the open- 

 ing of the tent in the face of. the tigress, that the beast could do 

 nothing more than continue standing there and glare at the men. 

 This went on for about two minutes, by which time the whole camp 

 was astir, and a number of men, armed with bludgeons, fire-brands, 

 and anything else they could pick up, rushed on the scene. Such an 

 accession of force was of course rather more than the tigress had 

 bai'gained for ; she sprang back a few paces, tore up in her rage great 

 clods of earth, and sulkily walked away, by the same route by which 

 she came, into some cover not far off. The orderly's tent, which had 

 been pitched about 30 yards in advance of the rest of the camp, was 

 of course forthwith abandoned, and its occupants were only too glad 

 to pass the rest of the night within the body of the camp. 



"The next visit the tigress paid us was about ]0 p.m., before any one 



