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nook by the water, and, after a roll in the wet sand, proceed 

 to sleep off the effects of his midnight gorge. Sometimes, 

 however, if the sportsman be out early enough, he will find, 

 from the cries of animals, that the tiger is moving not far 

 ahead of him, and he may then by cutting him off even 

 obtain a shot. 



On one occasion I followed a tiger in the early morning for 

 several miles up the bed of a stream, entirely by the demon- 

 strations of the large Haniiman monkey,* of which there were 

 numbers on the banks feeding on wi]d fruits. As the tiger 

 passed below them the monkeys fled to the nearest trees, and, 

 climbing to the highest branches, shook them violently and 

 poured forth a torrent of abuse f that could be heard a mile 

 away. Each group of them continued to swear at him till 

 he passed out of sight, and they saw their friends further on 

 take up the chorus in the tops of their trees, when they 

 calmly came down again and began to stuff their cheeks full 

 of berries as if nothing had happened. The river took a long 

 sweep a little further on, and by cutting across the neck I 

 managed to arrive very much out of breath in front of the 

 tiger, and crouched behind the thick trunk of a Kawd tree till 

 he should come up. He came on in a long slouching walk, 

 with his tail tucked down, and looking exactly like the guilty 

 midnight murderer he is. His misdeeds evidently sat heavily 

 on his conscience, for as he went he looked fearfully behind 

 him, and up at the monkeys in a beseeching sort of way, as 

 if asking them not to betray where he was going. He was 

 travelling under the opposite bank to where I was, in the 



* Presbytia entellus. 



t The voice of the monkeys on snch occasions is quite different from their 

 ordinary cry. It is a hoarse barking roar something like that of the tiger. Is 

 it the first beginning of imitative language ? 



