PANTHERS. 



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however, the panthers kill many of these poor people, 

 their excellent powers of climbing enabling them to reach 

 the platforms without difficulty. 



It is strange how wild animals in a certain locality 

 seem to adopt any bad habit started by one of their 

 fraternity their leader of fashion in fact the bears for 

 instance, in some parts of the Central Provinces, kill 

 many natives every year, apparently because it is the 

 fashion to do so, for they do not eat them. 



Again, I remember, in the year 1870, a hilly district 

 not far from Kurnool being so infested by man-eating 

 tigers, that the Madras Government offered a reward of 

 Ks.300 for every tiger that was shot there ; but the 

 jungle was very feverish and dense, as well as being 

 difficult of access, and the tigers triumphed for many 

 years. 



INCIDENT NEAR MOWL ALI. 



