CHAPTEK XIX. 



Meet Blowers at Baug Tiger wounded Following up We return empty- 

 handed Another Tiger A Snap-shot The Tigers' Den Imperfect Ven- 

 tilation Spoiling the Slain Old Bullet-wound Skin spoilt Return to 

 Sirdarpore Meet Ward and Bradford at Dhotreea Two Bears shot 

 Two more Large Tiger and two Bears bagged. 



FROM Dhurrempooree I marched westward through Nimar 

 till I arrived at Bang, where my friend Captain Blowers met 

 me. Though no sportsman, he was anxious to shoot a tiger, 

 and as they were seldom absent from the neighbourhood, I 

 hoped he might succeed. My men had been out since day- 

 break, and about noon sent word that they had taken- the 

 track of a tiger up to an old iron-pit. On repairing to the 

 spot we found that the entrances to the excavation opened in 

 several directions, and that all were more or less obscured by 

 bushes. On all sides lay an extensive tree-jungle of moderate 

 height. 



Having fixed on our positions in trees lying in the course 

 we expected the tiger would take, we sent a number of men 

 round to drive him out. He showed at once, but broke wide 

 of our positions, and though I put a bullet into him, he went 

 off at a sharp pace. We took up the track, and followed it by 

 the blood for some distance, keeping well together, with the 

 guns in front. As we proceeded we halted frequently to allow 

 men to climb trees and examine the ground before us, in 

 hopes of getting a view of the beast, for we knew that at no 

 time is the hunter in greater danger than when following up, 



