CHAPTER XXL 



The last Bear An engagement without Beaters A well-known 

 Pug Eoopur's story On the trail of the Man-killer The 

 Bivouac. 



AGAIN was Mr. Roopur's star in the ascendant. 

 He had gone out into the hills with a party of men 

 before dawn, leaving Rugonauth to examine the 

 country about the river for tigers. 



A bear was seen soon after daylight, and marked 

 to a shelving rock on the side of a hill, where he 

 finally took up his quarters for the day. The place 

 being open, was easily kept in view, and the beast 

 could not leave it without being seen by the men 

 stationed on the opposite hill. Taking up his 

 position there with four or five others, Roopur 

 dispatched a messenger to apprise the hunters of his 

 success, and to tell them beaters were not required. 



After the lapse of a sufficient time, they were 

 discerned making their way through the jungle at 

 the foot of the range of hills, and Roopur joined 

 them under a tree which he had fixed on as the 

 resting-place for the horses. 



