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" meuced his depredations on man and womankind in the jungles 

 " near the " Arengowl Pass," and he continued his devastations for 

 " more than a twelvemonth, to the terror of the neighbourhood and 

 " all travellers through the pass, where there was considerable 

 " traffic. I became acquainted with this scourge at the outset of 

 " his homicidal propensities ; I was prowling about the skirts of 

 " the jungle near the pass in question one evening, for deer, pea- 

 " fowl, and the like, when I was shouted to by a native, who on 

 " my approaching, told me to be careful and not enter the jungle 

 " there, as a tiger had, only a few hours before, taken away his 

 " (the native's) companion, while they were tending their charcoal- 

 " burning ; and that he had only just found the remains of the 

 " poor man, more than half-eaten, in the thicket close by. On my 

 " asking what he had done with them, he naively replied that he 

 " had burnt them according to Hindoo custom, by putting them 

 " into the charcoal fire ; and he added that this was the fifth 

 " victim that the tiger had killed. I left that part of the country 

 " shortly after, but returned through that very pass about a year 

 " subsequently, when I found the man-eater had become notorious. 

 ' I was warned that the ghaut was dangerous, and I came down it 

 "rifle in hand, with my horse following, hoping-, if the tiger did 

 " come, that horse-flesh, or even horse-keeper's, might be more 

 " attractive than mine ; however, he did not show, either having 

 " lately killed some one, or perhaps indulging in a siesta for it 

 *" was mid-day ; and we all got safely through the dreaded pass. 

 " At the village I heard that he had killed nearly one hundred per- 

 " sons, and that there was a reward of two or three hundred rupees 

 " offered for him. In those days money was money ! and such a 

 " reward called forth the ingenuity of sundry avaricious natives to 

 " gain possession of it. Some tigers were trapped, one or twa 

 " shot, and as the man-eater had been described as a mangy hair- 

 " less brute, these captures were in various ways disguised by 

 " shaving, scalding, &c., to make the Collector or his assistants 

 " believe that the real Simon Pure had at last been caught. One 

 " sly old fellow very nearly succeeded, but that spirit of distrust 

 " amongst themselves which enables us to hold possession of India, 

 " cropped out even in such a trivial case, and the crafty old chief 



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