CHAPTEE XXIV. 



Excursion to Rajpootana Bradford's Encounter with a Tiger Prompt Prac- 

 tice A "Wolf The Jowra Gunsmith I meet Hayward Trout-fishing 

 Alligator shot A runaway Elephant Native Fishermen Turtle 

 Bustard General Game A Tiger shot Camp at Mandul Murrel-fishing 

 Shoogramghur Pig-shooting Return toNeemuch andSirdarpore Hot 

 Season Expedition Meet Evans and Froom Tiger shot Panther shot 

 Move to Hum Pahl Tiger killed A Facer Panther in Mogra Bear 

 missed Jeeree Ravine Two Panthers shot Camp at Baug Panther 

 shot Maun River Tigress shot A Rifle smashed Panther killed Good 

 shooting Move to Munawur Two Panthers slain Man wotmded Camp 

 at Kotra Nylghae Cheerakan Fossils Move to Sooltanpoor Death of 

 Tarrachund Dutteegaum Bear wounded End of the Campaign Con- 

 cluding Remarks. 



FINDING that a claim to three months' leave had accumulated, 

 I applied for permission to join my friend Major Hayward, 

 who was then employed in settling boundary questions in 

 Eajpootana. Early on the first of January 1865, 1 left my own 

 camp, which was pitched at Budnawur, in the northern part 

 of the Dhar territory, and riding into Eutlam I was met by 

 Captain Bradford, the political officer in Western Malwa, with 

 whom I spent the forenoon. Since our last meeting he had 

 been nearly killed by a tiger, and had undergone amputation 

 of an arm. While out shooting with a party from Goona, he 

 was seated on a low stump when he was charged by a wounded 

 tiger. He sprang down and made a rush backward, hoping to 

 be able to throw himself into a pool of water close by. But 

 tie tripped and fell, and the tiger, seizing him by the arm, 



