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rough description, belonging to the Bucklhist period, 

 which I did not visit ; and on the following morning 

 I returned to Bombay by the same route I had come. 



When at Lanowlee I made my first acquaintance with 

 a live tiger, who had infested the station for some days 

 past, carrying off, fortunately, nothing bigger than 

 poultry. In the evening I was standing against the 

 wall of the building, lighting a cigarette, when sud- 

 denly, within a dozen yards, my eyes became fixed by 

 two bright spots like fire ; it so startled me that I lost 

 all power of motion, unable even to remove my eyes, 

 although I was quite aware that in another instant 

 the tiger might attack me, for that they were his eyes 

 there was no doubt on my mind. Luck, however, 

 would have it that at that very moment my boy 

 appeared round the corner to announce dinner, when 

 seeing what was up, he got hold of my arm and pulled 

 me forcibly round the corner and into the house. It 

 was small satisfaction to me being told afterwards that 

 the brute was a man-eater, and must have felt greatly 

 disappointed at the loss of his supper. 



Before leaving Bombay I one evening joined a party 

 of club members to a Parsee theatre, to witness the 

 performance of a favourite piece entitled " Kustan the 

 Brave," one of the legendery heroes of the early Persians, 

 whose fame forms the subject of much of their poetry. 



