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intervals. We had a sick child carried in a dhooly, 

 and I wondered if he would die on the road. 



In the early hours of the morning our path ran 

 for some miles along the side of a stream, between 

 it and a line of fringing cliffs. The moon was 

 at its full ; marching was pleasant. The path 

 between the stream and the cliffs ran between 

 shrubs giving forth a wonderful fragrance : the 

 coolness of the night after the great heat brought 

 forth all the scent. What flowers or shrubs they 

 all were I do not know ; jasmine was among 

 them, the jungle flower that smells of honey, the 

 champah odours, too, " like sweet thoughts in a 

 dream," and others that I could not recognize. I 

 shall always remember that beautiful scented 

 moonlit march. 



We had a quiet time in our new camp from 

 the 25th of April to the 5th of May. We were after 

 a man-eater most of the time and did no good. 

 Iseri Singh gradually recovered, being cured by 

 the Indian Esuf Gul seed when the English 

 remedies had failed ; but his own indomitable 

 spirit helped him most. 



We killed a tigress who refused to be beaten 

 out and took refuge in a cave under high cliffs. 

 I was called up and at first did not believe in her 

 existence, until on looking down from the cliff I 

 heard a roar. Many of the beaters were at the 

 foot of the cliff. I hurried down and found that 

 the tigress had put her head out of a cave and 

 had roared at the nearest men, who were thirty 

 yards away and separated from her by a gully. 

 Luckily she did not attack. I took post on the 

 gully and tried in vain to make her show again. 



