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back, closed camp, dressed the other man, paid off 

 coolies, and loading himself with some food and 

 water for me outstripped his men and caught me 

 up. The man was splendid ; he knew he was 

 dying, and never said a word of himself : all his 

 thoughts were for his wife and children. Towards 

 the end his own people were afraid of him. We 

 kept him alive with stimulants, and got him some 

 twelve miles, but progress was slow, for the night 

 was dark. The beat had only begun at 4 P.M. : 

 the man died at midnight a fine fellow who made 

 one think even higher of the native than ever. 



Norton shot the tigress later. 



My friend Captain Phillips, of my own battery, 

 shooting by himself some years ago in the Central 

 Provinces, hit a tigress who disappeared into a 

 thick patch of elephant grass studded with trees. 

 While reconnoitring from some high rocks, all the 

 natives, as so often happens, could make out the 

 tigress lying in the grass while the white man could 

 not. The latter had no intention of going into such 

 cover on foot ; but while wondering what was to 

 be done, two or three natives forced his hand by 

 going into the grass, climbing some trees, and 

 beckoning to show where the tigress lay. 



A shot in her direction drew a growl but no 

 charge. Thinking she was too hard hit to be 

 dangerous, P. started to walk her up. On catching 

 sight of the tigress lying head towards him, he un- 

 wisely jumped to a tree for cover instead of taking 

 his shot at once. When he looked round it he 

 found the tigress, who had never made a sound, 

 on top of him. He had no chance of firing, was 

 picked up by the ankle in her stride and dragged 

 about thirty yards. He lost his rifle in his fall. The 



