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came suddenly on him one afternoon as he was rolling on 

 some dry sand in the bed of a watercourse, but he saw us, 

 and was off before I had time to shoot. 



Hay ward also fell in with one under peculiar circumstances. 

 While walking quietly in quest of game, he heard a great 

 swearing of monkeys, accompanied by the cries of deer. As 

 the noise appeared to approach, he stood, and soon saw 

 numbers of cheetul and sambur coming on, apparently in a 

 state of great alarm, while troops of monkeys sprang from 

 branch to branch, crying in the manner peculiar to them 

 when alarmed by the sight of a tiger or panther. Hayward 

 and his shikaree stood motionless, and presently the head 

 and shoulders of a tiger appeared from behind a clump of 

 bamboos. Catching sight of them, he dashed off ; but Hay- 

 ward had a right and left shot at the deer, and got two sambur. 



Tracks of tigers having been seen near the river, Emaum 

 proposed that we should sit up one night over a cow which 

 was to be tied up for a bait, and a platform was made in a 

 tree for this purpose. The place was not, however, well 

 selected, and as the moon rose we found the cow lying in deep 

 shade. Two tigers came by together about midnight, and 

 passed within thirty yards of the cow ; but the old beast laid 

 her head to the ground, and they passed on without seeing 

 her. 



We frequently came across pigs, and sometimes saw some 

 very fine boars. Eeturniug home with Emaum one evening 

 empty-handed, we saw a sounder* of pigs rush across our line 

 100 yards in front of us, and as we moved up to the spot we 

 heard one of their number crying after them. This was an old 

 sow, who, I suppose, had been busy with some choice root which 

 she did not like to leave, and so had been left behind. She 



* Term used in the language of Boardom for a " herd." 



