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neglecting his warning, they had started at 2 a.m., trusting 

 doubtless to fate after the manner of their kind. 



Conveying part of the camp equipage were some pack- 

 bullocks, accompanied by the driver, who was walking 

 behind them, when suddenly the tiger pouncing on him 

 carried him off into a dense jungle near the road where he 

 had been probably lying in wait. 



The servants, panic-stricken, made no attempt to 

 rescue the man, but, leaving him to his fate, had come 

 running into the station with the news. 



Colonel W , together with the Superintendent of 



Police and the Civil Surgeon, rode out at once to the spot, 

 which was some five miles distant. 



Here they soon found the broad track left by the tiger 

 as he had dragged his victim through the jungle, and 

 following along this for some considerable distance, they 

 came upon the remains of the latter lying in the densest 

 portion of the jungle. 



The tiger, like most man-eaters, was evidently a very 

 cunning beast, and had no intention of running any risks 

 by returning to finish his kill ; for he had already eaten 

 most of it, the upper portion of the body being all that was 

 left of the unfortunate man, but this was intact, except 

 for a wound in the neck where the beast had seized 

 him. 



It was hopeless to look for the tiger without elephants, 

 the jungle being too extensive and dense. He was shot 

 eventually, but not till a year or more had passed, during 

 which time he had added many other human victims to his 

 list. 



The second case referred to, relates to events in the later 

 sixties, when man-eaters were quite common in, and in 

 districts adjacent to, Seonee, and more especially on the 

 high road from Jubbulpur to Nagpur, a distance of one 

 hundred and sixty-eight miles and passing through the 

 Civil Station of Seonee, which lies about half way. 



On practically the whole length of this road, but 

 particularly at a long pass or crossing of three miles, 

 called the Korai Ghat, a party of what I may call pro- 

 fessional man-eating tigers, had taken up their quarters, 

 who, lying in wait in small hillocks above the road, would 

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