military station of Bangalore. I was in camp in a 

 forest in which I had heard of several kills by 

 tigers, and as three or four public holidays hap- 

 pened to come together, I wrote and asked Major 

 (now Colonel) C.-W. and Mr. (now Sir E.) K. 

 (then both of the 2ist Lancers) to join me for 

 three days' chance beating. They accepted my 

 invitation, but, as if by magic, all news of killing 

 by tigers ceased, and if I could have prevented 

 their coming, I would have done so, as I feared 

 that they might make an unprofitable journey. 

 However, there was no time to communicate with 

 them, and they duly arrived at my camp. We 

 beat on two days just on the chance, without 

 any kills seeing nothing but a pig and a fine 

 spotted stag, at which latter K. fired without 

 effect. 



I decided to move camp to Magadi, and, whether 

 one of my ties there were killed or no, to beat at 

 a place about nine miles from the new camp on the 

 day after our arrival at the latter. 



I had for some time been tying out about three 

 miles from Magadi, but in the opposite direction to 

 the blocks of jungle, to beat which arrangements 

 had been made ; and after moving camp, the men 

 brought in the two baits from the former locality, 

 saying that it was of no use to tie them there, as 

 no tiger was in the vicinity. 



C.-W. and K. then went out with their shot-guns, 

 while I remained in camp to look after arrange- 

 ments for our comfort. They had been gone 

 perhaps half an hour, when a man came up in 



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