CHAPTER XVI. 



Sooltanpoor Kavine Tiger seen Man wounded Second visit Tiger slain 

 Tiger shot "by Ward Tiger shot Ward's shooting Good Pistol-prac- 

 tice Florican shooting Hyaena Panther shot in Dhar Hyaena-trap 

 Mandoo Tigress shot Bears at Burmundel Bears at Buckutgurh 

 Dhotreea Tigress shot Intense Heat Bear shot on the Mhye Ramla 

 A Habitual Criminal Act. 



FIVE miles westward of the town of Dhar, near the village of 

 Sooltanpoor, lies a fine ravine which has long been celebrated 

 as a haunt of tigers. It is the birthplace of one of the count- 

 less streams which, rising in the Vindyah range, find their 

 way down to the Nerbudda. 



Near the head of the gorge is a dense mass of corinda 

 thicket, under which runs a clear stream ; and hearing that a 

 tiger had been seen in its neighbourhood I started from my 

 camp at Dhar in search of him. I had no regular shikaree 

 with me, and had to make the best arrangement in my power 

 with the men at my disposal. On reaching the ground I 

 selected a tree, close to the edge of the stream, at the lower 

 end of the covert, and sending the men to beat down from the 

 head of the ravine, I mounted on a branch and awaited their 

 approach. Before long I saw a very large male tiger leave 

 the bushes on my right front, and skirting the side of the 

 ravine, it passed over a stony ridge into the next gorge. I 

 quickly descended and followed on the track with some men, 

 but the ground was very hard and stony, and we could make 

 nothing of it. 



