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It appeared that Hebbert from his post had 

 seen the two tigers walking towards me along the 

 bank of the nullah ; the one I had shot leading 

 by some sixty yards. My getting down from my 

 tree had evidently attracted the attention of the 

 hiridermost tiger, who then had broken past 

 Hebbert, and his shot had disturbed my tigress, 

 and thus prevented her coming to such undesirable 

 close quarters with me as she would otherwise have 

 done. 



We c tied out ' again that night and the follow- 

 ing one, but no ' kill ' was reported ; however, my 

 luck was in the ascendant, for I got another tigress 

 the day but one after I had shot the one whose 

 death has been described above. As it was rather 

 an exciting bit of shikar, I will endeavour to de- 

 scribe the circumstances of finding her, and her 

 subsequent death. 



At four a.m. in the morning of the day in 

 question, we all started for some isolated rocky 

 hills about two miles off, taking our horses and 

 spears, with a view of trying to ride and spear 

 some bears which were said to frequent them ; in 

 this, however, we w^ere unsuccessful, as Bruin was 

 * non est,' and we returned to camp very tired, and 

 feeling decidedly lazy. 



As there seemed no chance of any more tigers 

 about, we determined to devote the evening to 



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