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On going to the spot, we saw (he print of 

 the leopard's foot in many places within the 

 wall, and a part of the carcass of a deer that 

 he had carried off, on the outside. We 

 therefore determined to sit up the next night 

 and try to shoot it, and accordingly took our 

 station in a small house that had a window 

 looking into the compound. About midnight 

 we heard and saw the deer running about as 

 if they were much frightened; and at last we 

 got sight of the leopard on his retreat,, at the 

 moment he leapt on the wall. 



Our guns at the time were pointed through 

 the Venetian blinds of the window, in a direc- 

 tion to shoot at any thing on the ground, or at 

 the height of a leopard, and when we saw him 

 on the wall, we could not elevate them suffici- 

 ently, or we might have killed him. It was a 

 moon -light night, and he kept in the shade 

 all the time he was in the compound. He 

 continued his depredations every night, and 

 the last deer that he carried off, which we saw 

 on the outside partly devoured, was a very 



