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originally found him. We reloaded, and following, found him 

 very groggy, and put an end to him without further trouble. 



Thus ended our first day's work. Three tigers had been 

 found and bagged. We bound the last two on the elephant, 

 and returned in triumph to our camp, where we found that, 

 with the assistance of the village "chamars" (skinners) rny 

 servant had removed and pegged out the skin of the beast we 

 had slain in the morning, and was ready to turn his attention 

 to the last comers. The skins of these were also pegged out 

 before dinner ; and as we smoked our evening pipe, and lay 

 back in our comfortable arm-chairs, we discoursed the labours 

 of the day, and went to bed hopeful for the morrow, our men 

 having told us that they believed other tigers were in the 

 neighbourhood, and that another lot of unhappy buffaloes 

 had been tied up in the rivers and other likely places. 



I forget whether one of these was killed during the night, 

 but we went forth next morning (Wednesday) after a tigress 

 which was said to have her cubs in the ravines near the river. 

 A number of beaters was assembled, and a line formed, while 

 we took up positions ahead, on foot. The tigress was soon 

 started, but got off without a shot ; so, making a note of the 

 line she had taken, we mounted the elephant, and going 

 round to the bed of the river, moved up along the bank, and 

 halted at the mouth of one of the small ravines. Our star 

 was in the ascendant, for, as the beaters again came on, the 

 tigress appeared on the bank above us, within thirty yards, 

 and, firing together, we rolled her over into the ravine, where 

 another shot finished her. Our men were anxious that we 

 should not disturb the country more that day, as they sup- 

 posed that other tigers were not far off, so we went quietly 

 home with the main body of our forces, leaving our shikarees 

 to make all needful arrangements for the following day. 



