214 THE SUNDERBUNDS 



on such parts that have been reclaimed and brought 

 under cultivation, and it is here also that most of 

 the man-eaters are to be found. Almost all Sun- 

 derbund tigers are confirmed fearless man-eaters, 

 and those that for some cause or other have been 

 brought once into contact with men are specially 

 so. The southern parts of the Sunderbunds face 

 the sea, and consist mostly of sand-dunes, over- 

 grown in parts with tamarisk and hurtall palms, 

 with an undergrowth of a fine kind of grass, on 

 which large herds of spotted deer may be seen 

 feeding of an early morning or towards evening. 

 Numbers of pigs may be seen here rooting for crabs 

 and roots, as the kind of grass that grows among 

 the sand-dunes has a sort of small bulb to which 

 pigs are very partial. It is in such parts, too, 

 that tigers delight in making their homes, for the 

 large number of deer and pigs, that are to be found 

 about here, supplies them with abundant fare/' 



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