226 GANJAM. 



my head servant awoke me one night 

 and announced that three of the stable 

 men and a valuable dog had been bitten 

 by a mad jackal ; he said he had heard 

 of a Brahmin living in Granjam who had 

 treated many such cases successfully, 

 and a messenger was sent in hot haste 

 to summon him. 



Excision or cautery of the bites 

 seemed to me impossible owing to the 

 position of the wounds. The first man 

 attacked was seized by the great toe 

 as he lay asleep in his hut, the jackal 

 then rushed into the next hut where a 

 horse-keeper, roused by the outcry, was 

 just sitting up, and bit him in the upper 

 part of the nose ; from this hut the 

 beast crossed the field to a cattle pen, 

 but failed to get inside ; returning, it 



