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for a minute or more. " There may be a tiger down there, 

 sahib," he said at length. " We had better climb out and 

 try and get into the nullah some way ahead." Sending 

 one of the two men with us up into a tree with orders to 

 gently hammer on the trunk with his stick should the tiger 

 come up the nullah, so as to turn him back again, we 

 proceeded to climb up the steep side and then cautiously 



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continued along the top out of sight of the monkeys until 

 a point had been reached about half a mile further on, and 

 then silently and cautiously climbed down into the rocky 

 stream-bed once more. Here we took up positions com- 

 manding the stretch of nullah above us and waited. I had 

 been helped into the fork of a low tree, and settling in my 

 uncomfortable perch I waited on events. Half an hour 

 went by and then we suddenly saw the native we had left 



