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about sixty yards off. He was evidently going to cross over to the remains of 

 the kill and was looking to see if the course was clear before crossing, when a 

 large fish jumped. This frightened the tiger who hurried round and was going 

 up the bank when I had a hurried shot and missed. 



On another occasion in the same year, 1 was out after a gaur in a forest, 

 some thirty miles from where the buffalo was killed in the Pegu river and 

 a Karen informed me that during the previous evening he was out in his old 

 "Ya" (cultivation) looking for vegetables when he heard a tiger roar and 

 immediately after a gaur bellow, and said, he thought the tiger had killed a 

 gaur. He would not come out with me himself but told my tracker where 

 to go. My tracker had no difficulty in finding the place and the tracks of 

 the gaur which we took up and followed. We had not been on the tracks ten 

 minutes when we came suddenly on to a cow gaur which ran out of a clump 

 of bushes, stood looking at us, and then moved off. The tracker said the herd 

 must be near, and we were moving on, when from the same clump of bushes 

 a gaur calf, about a year old, came tumbling out right on to us. We found 

 that the poor beast had both its hind legs hamstrung and broken above the 

 hock, and could not run away. This was the calf that had been attacked by 

 the tiger the evening before, and the m: ther was standing over guarding it. 

 My tracker wanted to take it home and try to cure it, but J saw it was useless 

 attempting to do anything, and as the poor thing must have been in great 

 agony, I put a bullet into it and finished it off. My tracker wanted me 

 to sit up for the tiger, but as 1 had to hurry on to the next camp I could not 

 do it. 



On other occasions during the year 1902, I came across a sambur stag with 

 very fine horns (for Burma) killed ia the same way by being hamstrung first. 

 I also found a cow sine and two cow gaur killed in the same way during the 

 early part of this year. I was out after a gaur and had found the fresh tracks 

 of what seemed to be a fair sized bull, and was following it up. The tracks 

 being quite fresh, we expected to come up with the animal very soon. While we 

 were going along very cautiously, my tracker noticed the pugs of a large tiger 

 following the tracks of the gaur and drawing my attention to them, said " we 

 are not the only ones after the gaur. " He had hardly said these words 

 when we heard a gaur bellow as if being attacked not far ahead of us. We 

 hurried on as fast as we could, keeping to the tracks, hoping to come on to the 

 tiger attacking the gaur, and in about ten minutes we came on to the place 

 where the tiger had attacked the gaur This was in some thick young Dendro- 

 calamus bamboo. The gaur was evidently going to lie up in this for the day 

 when the tiger attacked it ana broke one hind leg, as we could see from the 

 way in which the gaur dragged one leg in walking ; we followed on the tracks 

 of the gaur and tiger till late in the evening, the tracks leading us through the 

 most awful thorn and cane jungle imaginable. We expected to come up with 

 them every minute but were disappointed. My tracker said the tiger would 

 follow the gaur till it got tired and would then get in another bite probably 



