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it became evident she could no longer be trusted, so her 

 ultimate destination was the Dewan's zoological gardens at 

 Hyderabad, to which place also the bear was consigned. 

 The first tiger I ever saw in the jungle, was at Nowsan- 

 pully in June, 1868, where a brother officer and I were 

 encamped for several days, having tied up young buffaloes 

 at all the likely places between that village and Poppina- 

 pett, a few miles distant. This district was the favourite 

 resort of a tigress, which was far too cunning to kill our 

 ties, although she was in the habit of inspecting them, as 

 was proved by her tracks. After waiting in vain for 

 several days for a gara (kill) we decided to have a chance 

 beat, as our patience was exhausted. Although she 

 eventually became a notorious man-eater, her victims up 

 to that time had only amounted to two cattle herds, one of 

 whom had ventured to peep into a cave where she was 

 unfortunately at home, whereupon she sprang out and 

 killed him ; the other man was walking through the 

 jungle, when the brute appeared and killed him without 

 any provocation, but in neither case did she eat the bodies. 



I well remember being posted on the ground in front of 

 the above mentioned cave that day, and making schemes for 

 my defence in case the enemy appeared. A small bush 

 screened me in front ; there were two avenues of approach 

 from the jungle, one on each side, and an open space, about 

 twenty yards broad, between the bush and the edge of the 

 jungle. I decided to fire at the head directly it appeared 

 (which it luckily did not) there was no other alternative. 



Our camp at Nowsanpully lay close to a range of rocky 

 hills interspersed with scrub jungle, about two miles long 

 and one broad, a very tigerish-looking spot, and connected 

 with some similar ground a koss (two miles) distant, by 

 straggling patches of scrub jungle and rocks at intervals. 



