CHAPTEK XVII. 



Meet Bonnor on Dohud Frontier Tiger in Ranapoor Ravine Plan of Attack 

 Instantaneous Death I join my Friends Murder of two Bears 

 Cooling Drinks Another Bear Pursuit The Bear shot I return to 

 Sirdarpore Bears at Tirla A Siesta Drawing the Bear Mother and 

 Child smoked out The Chief of Jucnaoda Tiger-Tactics The Tiger 

 slain. 



MY friend Major Bonnor commanded the Bheel regiment at 

 Dohud, 50 miles to the westward of Sirdarpore, and having 

 been invited to meet him on the frontier, I marched through 

 the Jhabbooa country, and was encamped six miles south of 

 the town of Eanapoor, when I heard of a tiger in a small covert 

 near my tents. Major Bonnor, with Colonels Buckle and 

 Baigrie, was then encamped about 16 miles farther west, and 

 I had arranged to be with them on the following morning. 



The spot which the tiger had chosen was in a small ravine 

 about 200 yards in length by 50 in breadth, and in shape like 

 the letter Y. The lower part was filled with a dense mass of 

 creepers, having large leaves shaped liked a camel's foot, and 

 handsome pink blossoms. The stems twined like ropes from 

 tree to tree. At the spot where the ravine divided there was 

 a small tree, into which I stealthily climbed with one of my 

 gun-bearers. Outside the upper ends I had posted men on 

 trees, with directions to shout and hurl stones at the tiger 

 should he attempt to leave the covert. The beaters had been 

 sent to drive from the low end, and I sat facing a rocky ridge, 

 which rose between the two smaller nullahs. The position of 

 myself and gun-bearer was not a very good one, for we were 



