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the precipice, at the foot of which we 

 picked him up quite dead. 



If the bear had charged me I feel 

 sure my guide would have stood by me 

 with his heavy staff. I could not have 

 moved rapidly from my position on the 

 branches of the creeper. 



In the neighbourhood of Berhampur 

 and Chetterpur jackals were extremely 

 numerous, and instances of death from 

 hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a 

 mad jackal, several times occurred. One 

 night a rabid beast made its way into 

 the lines of the native regiment at Ber- 

 hampur and bit five persons as they 

 lay asleep in their open verandas. All 

 these people died, and such cases were 

 regarded as sure to be fatal. 



I was therefore much alarmed when 



Q 



