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joined by Evans and Froom of the 6th Dragoons. We moved 

 down towards the Hutnee river, and found a large tiger in 

 the Sankree Tokree ravine. Profiting by our former experi- 

 ence, I placed Froom on the high ground between the ravine 

 and the Hutnee. On being started, the tiger at once went up 

 the side, and he shot him dead. I was posted on the far side 

 of the ravine, and on descending into the bottom was nearly 

 overpowered by the heat of the sun, whose perpendicular 

 rays, untempered by the faintest breeze, beat down upon my 

 head. The tiger, which was a full-grown male, had fallen in 

 a spot whence he could not easily be lifted, so we were com- 

 pelled to skin him as he lay. 



We then moved down the Hutnee towards the Nerbudda, 

 and on the way started a panther out of a patch of green 

 reeds. On. being wounded he returned to the covert, and was 

 only discovered after a long search, when he was found dying 

 under an overhanging bank, completely hidden by the long 

 grass. 



We hunted a large extent of very fine covert in the Ner- 

 budda without finding the print of a foot, and resolved on 

 moving up to the Hum Pahl, but the intervening country 

 being quite impassable, we were compelled to go round by 

 Dhie. On the south bank of the river, at a short distance 

 below the Hurn Pahl, one of our buffaloes was killed, and 

 on going out we found the tiger among some small patches of 

 cypress interspersed with pools of water. We moved in to 

 the attack on our elephants, and this tiger was also shot by 

 Froom, without any assistance on our part. This was his 

 first expedition after tigers, and we were obliged to speak 

 seriously to him regarding the prompt manner in which he 

 disposed of our hardly-found game! This tiger was then 

 bound on an elephant, and I prepared to mount my own, on 



