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and two to three inches deep under his left shoulder, as if cut 

 with a sharp instrument, and it appeared to have been only 

 very lately done. 



On the 6th January, 1857, I was out after ibex and 

 sambur. At the little pool of water just beyond the gap on 

 the Sispara road, a sambur had just been having its bath, as 

 the water was quite muddy ; I put the people in the little 

 shola beyond but he was not there, and after a long tramp 





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without seeing any game but plenty of marks both of ibex 

 and bears, I sat down for tiffin on some rocks on the 

 stream at the far end of the great valley. I was reading 

 the Home News when I became suddenly aware of some- 

 thing passing in front of me, and on looking up I saw a 

 tiger not thirty paces from me ; he was going at a very 

 fast run and took no notice of me, and I doubt if he saw 

 me. I was up in a moment and jumping across the stream, 



