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that afternoon they got some nets and drove 

 the valley into them, capturing a fine pair of 

 cubs the size of mastiffs. As soon as the nets 

 were over them the villagers placed the ends 

 of long bamboo poles on the cubs and sat on 

 the ends of the poles so as to hinder them 

 from struggling, while men went close up and 

 secured them with ropes. The cubs were 

 eventually presented to His Highness and 

 found their way to the fine Zoological Gardens 

 at Mysore. 



Within the year, two more cubs were cap- 

 tured by the clever tactics of Dafadar Taman 

 Sing and four other members of Gordon's 

 Horse during a shoot in the Kinwet Reserve, 

 Central Provinces, under the following circum- 

 stances. An officer in that regiment had shot 

 and mortally wounded a tigress that was sun- 

 ning herself, half asleep, in the mouth of a 

 cave. She managed, however, to dash out for 

 a hundred yards, along the edge of a steep 

 declivity, before a second shot rolled her over, 

 dead, on the rocks forty feet below. At the 

 same moment a well-grown cub was seen to 

 leave the cave and to go back into it, and 

 arrangements were accordingly made to build 

 up the exit, and, if possible, to get the cub 

 next day. Further investigation revealed no 

 fewer than eight caverns, each of which pos- 

 sibly communicated with the rest, and there 



