Jungle By- Ways in India 



wretched man emitted the awful yell we heard, 

 turned, and tottered away thus placing himself 

 at the mercy of ' stripes/ Luckily the latter was 

 not a man-eater, or the man's fate would have 

 been sealed. 



We went down with a couple of lanterns to the 



There were the pugs of a large tiger. 



edge of the stream and found ample verification 

 of the man's statement, for there, clearly dis- 

 cernible in the moonlight, were the pugs of a large 

 tiger, the water slowly oozing into the two 

 impressions of the fore feet in the sand. Before 

 starting on this second excursion to the stream I 

 took the precaution to exchange my shot gun, 

 loaded with No. 8 cartridges (for that was the 

 weapon I had hurriedly snatched up on leaving 

 the tent !) for a heavy rifle. 



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