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to a very pleasant trip and march rapidly for the line of rails. The 

 only real accurate information I was able to get was from Mr. 

 Jhaverbhai Nathabai, the Dewan of Bansda, who obtained for me 

 the names of persons killed in the Bansda State ; only the villages, 

 dates of death, age, sex, &c, which was embodied in an official 

 document I have. This was made up from the police records of 

 the inquests on the persons killed, and from the reports of the 

 cattle killed in the various villages reported by patels. This only 

 applies to the villages in the Bansda State and not to the adjoining 

 villages in the Bangs, Baroda, and British territory. During 1888, 

 out of thirteen jungle villages in the State he killed in six villages 

 altogether eight people, of which seven were males, the dates of 

 killing 28th June, 3rd July, 22nd October, 2nd November, 4th 

 November, 12th November, 15th December, and 18th December. 

 Of these all were adults except one boy, named Ganda Kalia, aged 

 13 years. In the same villages during the same period thirty-five 

 cattle were returned as killed. I am sorry I am not able to get any 

 record of those killed in the Dangs or Baroda territory during the 

 same period. I have written to enquire at Bansda if there have 

 been any more cases reported of persons killed by tigers, and I am 

 informed by the Dewan there have been no more cases, so that this 

 strongly supports the view that the tiger I killed was the man-eater. 



Some eight years ago or so, Mr. Mulock killed an undoubted 

 man-eater near Toongar, some thirty-five miles from where we are 

 now sitting. I say an undoubted man-eater, because Mr. Mulock 

 was close by when the man was carried off, and went after it 

 at once, and found the half-devoured corpse. Whilst waiting by 

 the corpse the tiger or tigress (I forget which) returned, and 

 Mr. Mulock lulled it and made a 2 )0S t mortem examination of it, 

 finding parts of the deceased man inside the tiger, so I think we 

 may safely assume this was a man-eater. Mr. Mulock published an 

 account of it at the time, and gave me a copy which I have 

 unfortunately mislaid, but I think I may trust my memory so far as 

 to say there was nothing peculiar about this tiger in any way, and 

 that his skin was not mangy. 



I have no doubt you read in the papers a short time ago of a man- 

 eater being killed, called the Jaunsar man-eater. An account was 

 published, in which it appeared that Mr. B. B. Osmaston, of the 

 Forest Department, was out near Chakrata after her with a companion, 

 when Mr. Osmaston shot her whilst she was worrying his friend. 



