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Shaikh Boden proposed beating diagonally up the bed of the 

 river, and that we should post ourselves half-way down the bank 

 behind some bushes on the " up" extremity of the cover, the dis- 

 position of the islands, on which was the only cover, being such, 

 that the chances were greatly in favor of the tiger being forced 

 within easy range : which plan we agreed to pursue and were 

 walking along the Northern bank on our way to our posts when 

 we were stopped by the cry of " Bagh hai ;" and looking down to 

 the bed of the river saw, what apparently was, a very large tiger 

 stalking a herd of cattle that had come down to water. We 

 crouched down and had the luck to see the whole business. The 

 tigress, as she proved to be, when first seen, was stealthily stalking 

 a white cow which was some little way off from the main body of 

 the herd, and, taking advantage of the slightly undulating bed of 

 the river, had probably approached across an open space of perhaps 

 five hundred yards before this cow had seen her, the rest of the 

 herd were behind one of the islands and could not yet see the 

 enemy. The white cow allowed the tigress to approach to within 

 about 80 yards before she appeared to notice her danger, and at 

 first seemed to be fascinated by the appearance of the brute creep- 

 ing towards her, and it was only when the tigress commenced to 

 increase her pace to a trot that the cow made off, the trot increased 

 immediately to a lumbering gallop as the tigress had now got on to 

 the firmer ground that surrounded the islands, and in a very short 

 time she skirted over a small ridge into close proximity of the herd 

 which was then commencing to scatter on the news received from 

 the white cow. The gallop turned into a charge, and in a few 

 seconds the tigress had picked out a fine young cow, on whose 

 back she sprang and they both rolled over together in a heap. 

 When the two animals were still again, we could distinctly see the 

 cow standing up with her neck embraced by the tigress, who was 

 evidently sucking her jugular, the poor cow made a few feeble 

 efforts to release herself which the tigress resented by breaking 

 her neck. The remainder of the herd, some 20 in number, after 

 rushing wildly away, now returned to within 50 yards of the 

 tigress who was silently slacking her thirst off the cow and stood 

 looking on in a heap at the unexpected arrangement : finding after 



