CHAPTER XV. 



Termination of the "dour" A family party of Tigors An 

 unlucky Day A Jungle rendezvous A lucky Day A 

 charging Shot A Beater's danger A saving Shot. 



AT dawn the hunters were in the saddle, their 

 guns having been despatched some two hours pre- 

 viously. They had a journey of about eighteen 

 miles, the first part of which owing to the nature 

 of the ground was necessarily performed at a walk. 

 They were able, however, to get along a little faster 

 during the latter portion, and so reached their cam}) 

 at Mungaum in good time. Bath and breakfast 

 were barely finished, when men came in to say that 

 two or three tigers were marked down in one place, 

 in the bed of the river Morun that in which the 

 tigress had been killed. Fresh horses were accord- 

 ingly saddled, and the sportsmen proceeded to the 

 same collection of wood-cutters' huts of which men- 

 tion was formerly made. 



There they found Manajee full of zeal and deeply 

 impressed with a sense of his present importance. 

 In the absence of Rugonauth he had, of course, 



