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country, some thirty miles to the north ; but a few days 

 later intelligence arrived that he was not dead, but had been 

 badly mauled by a wounded tigress, which he was following 

 up when the brute suddenly sprang out of a nullah and 

 bit him severely. He (Captain Preston, of the Sherwood 

 Foresters) providentially recovered, which very few do who 

 have been in a tiger's clutches, the wounds, if not fatal on 

 the spot, generally resulting in pyaemia. Wounds either by 

 teeth or claws, should always be syringed with very dilute 

 carbolic acid (one part acid to thirty of water), and cloths 

 or lint saturated with the solution should then be applied 

 to them. At a place named Makmudpully, we went out 

 one evening to watch for bears at some caves on rising 

 ground close to the camp. Poulton and I were first 

 posted, the shikari then taking Manley off through the 

 jungle to the far side of the ridge. Presently several 

 shots in quick succession came from his direction, and 

 imagining he had got into a scrape with some janwars 

 we ran to his assistance. On nearing his post we almost 

 stumbled over a dead tiger which he had just shot. He 

 explained that as they were ascending an adjacent small 

 hill the shikari Baliyah leading a tiger jumped out 

 within a yard of him from under a rock. He was carrying 

 a 12 -bore gun, loaded with ball, and the right barrel sent 

 its projectile clean through the brute's heart at a range of 

 five yards. She rolled over kicking, whereupon Baliyah, 

 who was greatly excited, declared she was coming to life 

 again, and urged Manley to keep on firing to the tune of 

 six more shots, which, however, did not spoil the skin, the 

 first shot being the one that did all that was required. She 

 was a very handsome " royal," the stripes running round 

 the body without a break. During the night two tigers 

 were roaring or "moaning" rather round the camp 



