CHAPTER X 



LUCK AT LAST WITH TIGER 



By C. W. G. Morris 



In 1899 my favourite trackers, Kanni-Madha 

 and his brother Kanni - Jeddial, had left the 

 estate to start on a " Podu " or clearing of their 

 own, so I had engaged by an advance of pay a 

 Sholaga, KwoUa, with whom I had wonderful 

 luck. 



I started for camp on 2nd April for my month's 

 leave, which I get once a year and always spend in 

 the jungle. I had great hopes when I started, 

 as I was going to hitherto unexplored places away 

 to the east, but I soon discovered it was the 

 wrong time of year, so on the 14th of April returned 

 to my old haunts, very sorry that I had wasted 

 all these precious days and had nothing to show 

 for them. This was, however, the turning-point 

 of my bad luck. 



On 16th I shot a tigress with cubs. On 

 examination she proved to be blind in one eye, 

 and I picked out of the eyeball and skull some 

 thirty No. 6 shot. The cubs escaped. 



On the 17th of July I was very lucky in bagging 

 a panther, which had at last got the nickname of 

 the " Rogue," as he had been too cunning for us 



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