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The pack with which I have heen concerned is said to have originally 

 consisted of 7 or 9 wolves, and sometimes only five were seen to make attacks 

 From the. manner in which Ives killed, I think that one pack occasionally 



split up and killed in different directions, meeting again afterwards. Like 

 ollect by call. 



During August, September, October and November kills were almost entirely 

 confined to the Bankh ion-house circle and the Oomerdha and Piparia 



Out-post circles, but were compai in the latter. 



• the 17th December the kills seem to have occurred west of 

 Piparia and Bankheri, and after that date until the end of December in the 

 Bankheri circle. Then, curiously eRongh, the wolves appear to have run right 

 away east to the Jubbulpore border in the ghpur District, along the 



main read to Jhansighat, steadily killing on their way at every 10th or 12th 

 mile. 



I was on the 16th February. 1891, placed on special duty by the Chief Com- 

 missioner to hunt down these wolves, and, after a preliminary visit to Nar- 

 singhpur, commenced operations. Up to that time 25 cubs had been caught, 

 but the depredations continued. Having made myself acquainted with general 

 facts as now described, I considered it impossible to cover as much ground as 

 that in which kills occurred, so I confined myself to a tract of about 100 square 

 miles in the Bankheri Station-house and Sainkheri, Oomerdha and Piparia 

 Out-post circles. I personally visited most of the villages in all these circles, 

 with a view to making myself known to the people and getting assistance from 

 them. Having engaged the help of malguzars and kotwals, I arranged- — 



(1) that pits should be dug in every village ; 



(2) that early information of any kill should be given to me at once ; 



(3) that when a villager saw a wolf he should follow it up quietly from a 

 distance and inform the malguzar of the village. The malguzar was 

 then to surround the animal and send off information to me. 



(4) I also stationed Shikaris in selected spots where from the kills I thought 

 it likely they would meet the wolves, and I also had the carcases of 

 animals killed by wolves poisoned through the Police. 



Plan 1 was a complete failure ; the people opposed it, as several bullocks fell 

 into the pits. The plan appears to be of use only in instances when the 

 regular runs of wolves are known. Kotwals generaUy carried information 

 quickly, but villagers appeared too frightened to do anything beyond letting 

 the animal disappear and then mention the fact on return to the village at 

 night. 



Plan 4 — poisoning — is no doubt the most effectual. It is true that it takes a 

 lot of poision to kill a wolf ; but a moderate dose sickens him and gives one an 

 opportunity of coming across him somewhere round about his kill. This was 

 no doubt why I managed to get near the first two wolves shot in the open. 



One othpr plan occurred to me at the close of operations, the result of which 



