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ingenious plan to keep them away ; he carefully carved a 

 tiger's foot in wood and stamped the impression in every 

 direction leading to this piece of jungle ; after a time news 

 was brought in by another wood cutter of these numerous 

 tracks ; on first visiting the ground there appeared to be 

 little doubt as to its being much frequented by a tiger, but 

 on carefully inspecting the foot prints, it was discovered 

 that they were all made by one foot. 



I offered large rewards to get a shot at a tiger, but though 

 I often sat up for one I never once had a chance. There was 

 however some very fair snipe shooting to be got in the 

 cultivated grounds. 



I made a short expedition to some high ground on to the 

 main land beyond Jahore ; it was all through forest, and we 

 more than once came across fresh tracks of rhinoceros. I 

 was most anxious to shoot one of these beasts and kept 

 an eager look out, but though on our return we saw their 

 fresh tracks obliterating our footmarks, fortune did not favour 

 us. On this occasion shortly after passing these tracks, I 

 thought I was going to have a bit of good luck ; I was 

 advancing some distance in front of the rest of the party, 

 when I spied up a vista in the forest, what I thought was a 

 rhinoceros standing by a tree ; I could only see its head and 

 ear, the tree hiding the rest of the body. I could see the 

 ear distinctly moving backwards and forwards. Making 

 signs to the people to stop, with beating heart I crept from 

 tree to tree, and when I at last came within range, imagine 

 my disappointment on finding that the ear was a solitary dead 

 leaf and that the head was a combination of a dead branch 

 and a bush ; the leaf being moved by the wind gave it such 

 a life like appearance that I was very nearly firing at it, and it 



