282 THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTEAL INDIA. 



moving not far ahead of him, and he may then by 

 cutting him off even obtain a shot. 



On one occasion I followed a tiger in the early 

 morning for several miles up the bed of a stream, 

 entirely by the demonstrations of the large Hamiman 

 monkey,^ of which there were numbers on the banks 

 feeding on wild fruits. As the tiger passed below them 

 the monkeys fled to the nearest trees, and, climbing to 

 the highest branches, shook them violently and poured 

 forth a torrent of abuset that could be heard a mile 

 away. Each group of them continued to swear at him 

 till he passed out of sight, and they saw their friends 

 further on take up the chorus in the tops of their trees, 

 when they calmly came down again and began to stuflf 

 their cheeks full of berries as if nothing had happened. 

 The river took a long sweep a little further on, and by 

 cutting across the neck I managed to arrive very much 

 out of breath in front of the tiger, and crouched behind 

 the thick trunk of a Kaivd tree till he should come up. 

 He came on in a long slouching walk, with his tail 

 tucked down, and looking exactly like the guilty mid- 

 night murderer he is. His misdeeds evidently sat heavily 

 on his conscience, for as he went he looked fearfully 

 behind him, and up at the monkeys in a beseeching sort 

 of way, as if asking them not to betray where he w^as 

 going. He was travelling under the opposite bank to 

 where I was, in the deep shadow of the overhanging 

 trees ; but, when nearly opposite me, he came out into 

 the middle, in the faint yellow light of the just risen sun, 

 and then he looked such a picture of fearful beauty — 



* Presbytis entellus. 



t The voice of the monkeys on such occasions is quite difrorent 

 from their ordinary cry. It is a hoarse barking roar something like 

 that of the ti'rer. 



