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who escaped comparatively scatheless. In the evening I 

 went out with Bashi for a walk, and in a ravine about two 

 miles from the camp we came on a sounder of wild pigs. 

 Bashi dropped one with a fine shot, and we carried him 

 towards the camp slung on a pole. Darkness came on, and 

 we found ourselves struggling through rocks and thorns with 

 our burden. At length we saw the camp-fires in the valley 

 below us, and having shouted and fired a shot, we were soon 

 joined by our men, who relieved us of our porcine load. 



Next morning we went after a tiger which had slain one 

 of our buffaloes. He broke back through the beaters, and 

 was shot by a half-caste of inebriated habits who had come 

 from Mhow, having attached himself to Captain Evans's 

 stables. The tiger was a stout male, 9 feet 10 inches in 

 length. The two following days were blank, and we moved 

 our camp west to Bulukwarra. 



Evans and Cadell had been obliged to return to their 

 cantonments on some duty, but they rejoined us at this place 

 in time to see a tigress brought in by Murray and me. We 

 heard of her from one of the local police, who volunteered, for 

 a consideration, to be our guide. Under his leadership we 

 went out on elephants, and beat an open tree-jungle, having 

 an undergowth of bushes and dry grass. The tigress was 

 started by Murray out of a small dry nullah. His elephant 

 was unsteady, and he missed. The tigress then crossed my 

 front, and I was fortunate in dropping her. She was up 

 again in an instant, and came on, but was turned, and took 

 shelter in some broken ground, from which, with Murray's 

 assistance, she was dislodged and slain. On going back to 

 the spot from which she had started we found her two cubs 

 lying asleep on the gravel, in the bottom of the nullah. These 

 we brought home alive. From this camp we hunted the 



