A HUNTER'S PARADISE 67 



sahib. The shaitan's dead." They found him lying on his 

 side at the place I had last heard him sit down. And he 

 must have been dead an hour or two before the men arrived ! 

 They took me from the tree and I drank two long whiskies 

 and sodas, and ate a couple of sandwiches whilst they 

 hurriedly made a palanquin of creepers and branches. 

 Into this I got, for I could not have walked a yard, and 

 immediately fell fast asleep, only waking up as we reached 

 the camp. 



