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fell, and leaving a great pool of blood on the ground, he 

 had afterwards recovered himself, and gone slowly and 

 painfully off towards the river. We followed up the 

 track, and about three hundred yards further down 

 found him, by the chattering of birds, lying stiff and 

 stark under a bush. He had never reached the water 

 he sought. 



About twenty - five miles above Jubbulpiir is a 

 curious place called *' The Monkeys' Leap." A small 

 tributary of the Narbada, called the Baghora (or " Tiger 

 Eiver "), here comes down from the southern hills, and, 

 after approaching the Narbadd, within about a hundred 

 yards, sheers off again, and runs some miles before it 

 finally joins it. Deep water fills both the channels 

 opposite the narrow neck, and the strip of cover 

 between the rivers is a favourite resort for all sorts of 

 game in the hot season. I was invited by a neighbour- 

 ing Thakiir, a Eajpiit, to join a drive for game he was 

 arranging at this place, in which he hoped to secure a 

 famous tiger that had long defied every effort to kill 

 him. Long will " Whitehead," of the Gaira Baird, be 

 remembered on the banks of the Narbada. He fur- 

 nished sport to a whole generation of the sportsmen of 

 Jubbulpiir, and, so far as 1 know, never was killed. He 

 disappeared in the course of time. Several hundred 

 beaters were assembled to beat the leg-of-mutton shaped 

 tract, of which the narrow "Monkeys' Leap" between 

 the two rivers formed the shank. A large old stump of 

 a banyan tree stood right in the centre of the neck, 

 hollowed like a cup at the top by the weather, and filled 

 a few inches deep with drift sand. A better post for the 

 gunner could not be, and here the Thdkiir and I took 

 our places. It was a long drive, and it was not for an 

 hour or more that the game began to appear, and groups 



