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verandah, and placed the pads of the elephants round it ; the 

 elephants were close by the people were all sleeping quite 

 close. A tiger sprang over the pads and the railing against 

 which they rested and fastened on the pony's neck. It was 

 driven off immediately, but his jugular had been severed, and 

 he was dead in a few minutes. The tiger remained close by 

 all night and only retired at daylight. I arrived shortly after 

 and found my pony for whom I had paid Rs.4OO dead. As 

 a window of the bungalow commanded the body, and the 

 night was as bright as day, I watched there all night, but the 

 feline did not put in an appearance. So I lost my steed and 

 obtained no compensation, though I was there on duty. This 

 was the second pony I had had killed by tigers the other 

 was in Burma. 



There is fair shooting along this road. The next stage is 

 Oomloor ; en route, by starting very early, a good many 

 derrick pheasants and an occasional barking deer may be 

 seen, and if you leave this road at Oomloor and go by 

 Colonel Briggs' road to Palliar, in May and June, gaur are 

 very plentiful there. In three days' shooting there I got four 

 gaur, three sambur stags, two barking deer, and I saw at 

 least thirty more gaur and a dozen tusker elephants, but these 

 were not allowed to be shot then. From Palliar I followed 

 Colonel Briggs' road ; it passes over a plateau very like Oota- 

 camund, and 6000 feet high. I had to encamp near a heavy 

 cutting, and strolled off the next day in search of game. I 

 met some Cossyahs, and they said they would show me game 

 if I'd put up in their village, a little off the unfinished cart 

 road ; so I sent back a man to bring on my traps and went 

 with them. They took me through beautiful park-like 

 scenery, and I soon saw and shot a noble stag with very fine 

 horns : in a straight line 34 inches, round the curve 38. I 

 saw several does and the pugs of gaur and elephants. In the 

 village they had the head and horns of a very fine gaur, and 

 two or three of serow. My things came up rather late. I 

 tried fishing in a neighbouring stream, and caught but three 

 mahseers, the largest only 2 Ibs. 



In the night a tiger killed a cow, and going to inspect it, 

 with a view of sitting up over it at night, walking carelessly 



