64 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
aforementioned, and as, instead of bolting, he retained his 
position, I had to run back. The sentry, a Ghoorka, was in 
the enclosed portico, but as it was raised some six feet above 
the beast’s lair, he could not see him. With the inherent pluck 
of his race, however, and heedless of the sin of leaving his 
post, he accompanied me to the gate from which the animal 
could be plainly detected in the same position; resting his 
piece on the coping, and drawing as fine a bead as the uncer- 
tain light admitted, the man let fly. A tremendous howl 
followed, and the wounded beast scuttled off down the very 
road I had to go. The party residing at the Mess had come 
out at the report of the sentry’s rifle and endeavoured to dis- 
suade me from leaving, but I lighted a torch and sallied forth 
on my walk of barely 400 yards, waving the torch round and 
round, thus keeping it in full glow. Nothing occurred on the 
road, but as I turned into the gateway I almost fell over the 
prostrate body of the wounded animal, who, as he lay in the 
lest mortal throes right in the path, was qui‘e capable of mis- 
chief had I got within his reach. MHastily jumping aside I 
gained the door and so was safe. ‘The next morning we ex- 
amined the dead creature, whose lungs were torn to shreds, the 
bullet lodging in the left hind-leg, yet he had run the above 
distance in that condition—another instance of the vitality of 
the Cat-tribe. 
‘‘ As before said, this house, or rather its environs, was in- 
fested by Tigers, and during a residence of nine months, 
though we caught sight of seven, certainly no dark night 
passed without unmistakable evidence in the morning of the 
premises having been visited. Only once did the occupant 
succeed in bagging an animal from the house ; and then only 
after three previous failures. ‘Twice the visitor put in an ap- 
pearance at dawn on some rocks well within range, but on 
both occasions the opening of a door, though the hinges had 
