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dead or wounded, so telling the orderly who by the 



way was of the plucky Mahratta race to go to my 



right, we separated with the hope of finding the lost 



trail and had not done so ten minutes, when the 



sepoy shouted. Hurrying up to him I found him 



standing by the carcase of a tigress, stone dead, lying 



jammed between two rocks. In her final death agony 



she had sprung up and fallen where the carcase was 



discovered. I was delighted, as may well be imagined. 



But there was no time to be lost, for immediately 



the sun would be down, and there is no twilight 



in the East. So with the help of my follower, I 



soon collected a quantity of thorny bushes, grass, 



&c., and covered the prize over for there was just 



the chance of finding the body untouched in the 



morning, as in Burma there are very few jackals, 



and no hyaenas. My return was much quicker than 



my advance had been, so I got back to the path 



leading to Lepangyoung at dark. Everything was 



quiet. There were no signs of the deer I had shot, 



which I presumed had been removed by Shoay-Boh. 



Walking as rapidly as I could, without getting off 



the narrow path, I reached the zyat a little before 



eight, and was delighted to find there not only the 



three sambur, but a royal tiger. Shoay-Boh soon 



appeared, and informed me the feline had fallen 



dead. The express bullet had entered under its jaw 



and gone out at the back of the head. So I actually 



killed on this occasion five animals in as many shots. 



I pitched into the shikarie for not having followed 



me or sent some one after me, but he truly said 



as there was no one present of his party when I 



went off, they did not know which way I had gone, 



