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death of their fellows. Inglis found the bodies of both 

 combatants lying side by side. 



Single buffaloes are killed by a tiger ; but when a herd 

 is combined against him, as is always the case when his 

 presence is discovered, he has no chance of success. 

 Inglis ("Work and Sport on the Nepaul Frontier") 

 describes such an event, and as it is the only narrative 

 of this kind the author has met with, his account is given 

 in full. 



" One of the most exciting and deeply interesting 

 scenes I ever witnessed in the jungles . . . took place 

 in the month of March, at the village of Ryseree, in 

 Bhaugulpore. 



" I was sitting in my tent going over some accounts 

 with the village putwarrie and my gomasta. A posse of 

 villagers were grouped under the grateful shade of a 

 gnarled old mango tree, whose contorted limbs bore 

 witness to many a tufan and tempest which it had 

 weathered. The usual confused clamor of tongues was 

 rising up from this group, and the subject of debate was 

 the eternal 'pice* [small coins]. 



"A number of horses were picketed in the shade, and 

 behind the horses, each manacled by weighty chains, with 

 their ponderous trunks and ragged-looking tails swaying 

 to and fro with a never-ceasing motion, stood a line of ten 

 elephants. Their huge leathery ears flapped lazily, and 

 ever and anon one would seize a branch, and belabor his 

 corrugated sides to free himself from the detested and 

 troublesome flies. 



" Suddenly there was a hush. Every sound seemed to 



