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servants came np and said that my orderly had been mauled. I was 

 astounded. The rush and roar of the tiger had seemed to be almost 

 simultaneous with his disappearance over the hedge. The catastrophe 

 must have happened all in a moment. The man was badly wounded, and 

 was carried into a neighbouring bungalow. Evening was now drawing on. 

 The greater number of officers appeared on the scene with rifles, and were 

 with some difficulty assembled. We cleared the front as far as possible : a 

 5;uu was posted in a tree ahead, and we proceeded to walk up the tiger accom- 

 panied by the bull-terrier Pal. Soon Sal commenced barking at the corner of 

 the hedge, and shortly she put up the tiger, which gallop ped across our front 

 followed by the dog and a general fusillade. It was so dark that sights could 

 not be seen, but the tiger appeared to have been struck by at least one bullet. 

 We all gave chase, and the brute now squatted in a thick part of the hedge, as 

 was evident by the dog's barking, but we could not see it in the darkness, and 

 it refused to move, although we advanced to within five yards of it. Eeluc- 

 tantly we had to abandon the chase for the night. Next morning blood was 

 found, proving that the tiger was wounded, and its tracks were discovered in 

 a grass-filled nullah about a mile from the cantonment. Here all trace of the 

 animal was lost, and we failed to find it although we went through the grass 

 in line. 



For five days nothing was heard of the tiger. On the afternoon of 

 November 23rd I was riding through a village some five miles from 

 Jalna, when I heard that a villager had been seized and wounded in a 

 jowari (millet) field close by. I saw the man, who was badly mauled 

 and died two days later. I then went to the field and found marks of 

 the tiger. The crops were very long and thick, and we tried in vain 

 to find the animal. Next day we organised a beat, and I tracked the 

 tiger about half a mile, when the spoor was lost owing to the nature of 

 the ground. A dragging hind leg showed that the animal was wounded 

 severely. On November 26th I pitched my camp, in company with Lieut, 

 Lane of my regiment, seven miles out from Jalna, near the place where 

 the last tracks had been found. That day I discovered tracks two days old, 

 showing the direction the tiger had taken. Next day I tracked some miles 

 farther, and after a hard day's work we came upon fresh pugs leading up 

 a small deep ravine, branching from a large nullah. The nullahs were in 

 places filled with thick bushes, but the country generally was open, and con- 

 tained no trees. There were with us about 8 or 10 sepoys and villagers^ and 

 the good dog Sal, I posted Lane and myself at two branches at the head of 

 the ravine, and put in the men to drive the beast towards us, three of them 

 armed with rifles and accompanied by Sal. About half-way up the nuliah 

 they came upon the tiger, which Sal drove from cover. The animal broke 

 about fifty yards from Lane, who got a snap shot. Whether he hit or not 

 cannot be known. We then ran after the tiger, and finally headed it into 



