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tiger, I have invariably found the fang-marks in 

 the neck, though the shoulders and flanks of the 

 victim might be scarred by the claws of the tiger. 



Another incident showing how a tiger will 

 charge on occasion was related to me by the 

 same friend (Captain, now Lieutenant- Colonel, 

 Pierson), which occurred during a subsequent 

 trip, and, as it is a most exciting bit of sport, I 

 give it in the words of his own journal, which he 

 has kindly placed at my disposal : 



4 On the 22nd of April, Rawlins, Hebbert, 

 Brough, and self were at Daba,* a village con- 

 sisting of some twenty thatched houses, where 

 there was a strange story of a panther who was 

 in the habit of visiting this and the neighbouring 

 villages at night, making a hole in the roof or 

 wall of a hut, and dragging off an unfortunate 

 victim from the inside. In this way some thir- 

 teen men and women had been carried off during 

 the past month. News arrived of a kill whilst 

 we were at breakfast, so we started about ten a.m. 

 with twenty beaters, and travelled four miles in 

 a country cart, over. I think, the stoniest roads 

 in Asia, thereby saving our horses and jolting 

 ourselves. 



'The first beat near the hill proved blank. 

 Leaving our posts, we walked down the nullah 



* Vide p. 186. 



