MELURSUS "DIABOLICUS" 115 



Hoshangabad division of the Central Provinces ; and poor 

 Pelham Rogers, whose kindness on that occasion can 

 never be forgotten, himself fell a victim to a wounded 

 tiger next year, the date of the sad event falling, by some 

 strange fate, on the exact anniversary of the writer's own 

 minor experience with the bear. 



