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half-an-hour after our return to camp after a long and severe 

 day's work in the jungle. Having divested himself of his 

 dust-coloured hunting dress, Dhokul would appear in full 

 uniform, dark green, and red facings, and drawing himself up 

 would make a salute, and report his party " All well." On 

 this occasion he was very eager, and having seen us settled 

 into our places, he went off, and we presently heard the 

 beaters advancing towards us. A few minutes afterwards a 

 shot from Hay ward's tree was followed by a loud roar. Then 

 two or three more shots, and savage growls of a tiger evidently 

 wounded. Soon after Hayward called out that he had 

 wounded a large tiger, which lay disabled in the bed of the 

 nullah, but having dropped his loading-rod he was unable to 

 re-charge his rifle. He therefore suggested that I should come 

 and give him his quietus. As the ground between us was 

 thickly covered with grass and bushes, and I knew not the 

 precise position of the wounded beast, I did not care to come 

 down ; but at length, on being assured that the tiger did not 

 seem inclined or able to move, I descended. 



I had reached the ground when I heard renewed shouting 

 from the beaters, and rightly judging that another tiger was 

 on foot, I scrambled up again, just in time to see it break 

 away to my right. In the meantime one of my men who 

 was with Hayward had quietly got down from the tree, and 

 having recovered the loading-rod, enabled him to reload and 

 give the wounded beast the coup de grace. He was a very 

 large male tiger, and we bore him home to the camp, where 

 we spent the evening in pegging out his skin. Next morning 

 we were summoned to Kullianpore, where tigers had been 

 marked in two places. In the first beat, which was over some 

 rough open ground, a tigress came out and was shot by Hay- 

 ward. We then moved over to the river, where a large tiger 



