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horror. At last it was discovered that 

 the man-eater had its lair not in the 

 forest, but in a vault of the ruined fort, 

 and the whole male population armed, 

 and mobbed it in its den, killing not a 

 tiger, as was supposed, but a leopard. 1 



News was one day brought to me 

 that a leopard had again been seen near 

 Ancola, and had killed cattle ; and as 

 there was a natural anxiety to be rid 

 of it, I lost no time in summoning 

 Honama and his men to join me, with 

 their nets, and exterminate the enemy. 

 A long wooded spur of the hills ends 

 at Ancola, and gives access by the 

 Arbyle Ghaut to the tableland of Soo- 

 pah. The leopard was tracked into 

 the heavy jungle at the end of this 



1 " A leopard shall watch over their cities." 



