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horror I felt can be better imagined than described. 

 All my servants and the natives who knew the 

 circumstances, firmly believed that the owl was an 

 omen of the poor Glassies death. All the par- 

 ticular circumstances of the foregoing event, were 

 so forcibly imprinted on my mind at the time, that 

 although it took place upwards of twenty-eight 

 years since, it appears but as yesterday. 



It is remarkable that during the first three years 

 I resided at Chittrah, although I was shooting on 

 foot almost every day, through the thickest cover, 

 sometimes in company with Mr. Smith, and often 

 alone, I never saw a tiger ; and then, within the 

 space of a month, I met with five or six, in places 

 where I had been constantly in the habit of 

 shooting. 



I have often heard it said that the P he all,* 



* Pheall 1 believe was the original, and is now the pro- 

 per name, but they are better known in Ramghur by the 

 name of Phinkarr, which in my opinion is more appropriate, 

 as it explains what it is. Phinkarr signifying crier, pro- 

 claimer, or warning giver. The former word I imagine was 

 first used from its resembling the cry they make, and I 

 believe many names of animals owe their original to the 

 sound they bear to the calls of such animals, for example, 



