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pleased with our day's work. The tiger measured 9 feet 4 

 inches, and the tigress 8 feet 7 inches. 



In this chapter I have given the measurements of beasts 

 from a memo, lately received from Cad ell, who took them 

 down at the time. Many men have talked to me of tigers 

 twelve and eleven feet long, and in some countries they may 

 attain that size, but, speaking from my own experience, I can 

 only say I have not fallen in with them in Malwa or Mmar. 

 I have seen tigers nearly ten feet long, whose skins could 

 easily have been stretched, when fresh, to eleven or more feet, 

 but the breadth would have been greatly diminished and the 

 beauty of the skin impaired. 



On taking up the bear-skins which we had got on our way 

 from Dhie, we found that they had been completely destroyed 

 by white ants. These horrible little animals had been busy, 

 and the hair was eaten off in large patches. We found that 

 the only safeguard to protect skins when pegged out was to 

 cause a man to beat them night and day every half-hour with 

 a cane. White ants, when at work, cover the object to be 

 eaten with an incrustation of mud, underneath which they 

 carry on their operations. They will not work when disturbed, 

 and the concussion of the blows from the cane is enough to 

 keep them away. 



Here, much to our regret, we parted from Cadell, who was 

 obliged to proceed into the Sathpoora hills on duty. Before 

 he left we divided the spoils by lot. Having picked out the 

 four best skins, we tossed for choice, and so on till all were 

 divided. After which exchanges were effected, by private 

 bargain, for such as were supposed to have any particular in- 

 terest attached to them. Passing down to the Nerbudda by 

 the bed of the Hutnee river, CadelTs elephant got into a 

 quicksand, and was extricated with some difficulty. On such 



