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Marks of bears were numerous, but we saw no others. It was 

 late in the afternoon when we reached our tent, and, throwing 

 off our garments, we plunged into the stream and enjoyed a 

 good bath. We had a long talk that night after dinner, and 

 laid plans for another visit to these jungles ; for we could see 

 by the marks in the forest that game was plentiful, and we 

 were convinced that with good shikarees sport might be 

 obtained. As it was, we had nobody with us who had any 

 love of the chase, and the few people of Kautcote who 

 attended our camp were only qualified to act as indifferent 

 guides. 



By 10 A.M. next day we had no word of game, so we 

 set out on a further exploration. Passing a pool in the 

 river, we saw a small shoal of the spawn of the murrel or 

 sowlee fish. We knew that the parent fish were swimming 

 below the shoal and would presently come to the surface, 

 so, cocking my rifle, I waited their appearance. As one of 

 them rose, I fired, and my men running in, brought it out. 

 He was about seven pounds in weight. We then wandered 

 up the river without seeing anything, and about 2 P.M. we had 

 halted in the shade near some springs, not far from the stream. 

 We lay about under the trees, and our people were scattered 

 for some distance about the jungle. Presently one of them 

 came running up, and assured us that they had seen a 

 tiger lying close by. They suggested that Bradford should 

 mount one of the elephants, and remain near where we then 

 were ; and that I should accompany them and drive out the 

 tiger. We accordingly crossed the river about a hundred 

 yards below, and I was taken up among some rocks on the 

 opposite side, from whence I had a good view of two frag- 

 ments of rock an the other bank, meeting in a V shape, and 

 overshadowed by a thick green willow. Behind these rocks 



