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but no tigers that would kill, although at Gazelgut one of 

 our coolies who was tying up a hayla was chased by a tiger 

 and treed, the brute keeping watch over him for some 

 hours. 



We arrived at the lake on the llth April and pitched 

 our tents on the bund, a well-known camping ground, 

 at the back of which lies a famous stretch of jungle, 

 where we found tracks of tigers, panthers, bison, bears, 

 nilghai, spotted deer, and pigs ; but the tigers would 

 not look at our ties, owing, no doubt, to the abundance of 

 more toothsome food available. We had a few drives, 

 and got shots at bears and cheetul ; did a little bison 

 tracking and boating (we had brought a canvas skiff, 

 which was carried by two coolies from camp to camp), 

 and after a few days marched to Chundraopett, having 

 sent on shikaries to tie up coolgas.* The day previous 

 Colonel Eussell had to return to headquarters, his leave 

 having expired. On our way to Chundraopett the shikari 

 met us to report a kill in an adjacent nullah, which 

 we accordingly beat, but found blank, Kistiah reporting 

 that it was by a tigress and cub, and that the carcases 

 of no less than four bails were in the same nullah, 

 which had all been killed within the last few days; but 

 this jungle stretches as far as the lake, a distance of 

 twelve miles, so it was a hopeless task to attempt to 

 beat it, unless a tiger should have been ringed into a 

 certain area. All this tract of jungle is now preserved 

 by the Nizam for his own sport. The next morning there 

 was a great commotion in camp, as one of the elephants, 

 while collecting reeds for forage at a neighbouring pond, 

 had lost his temper and knocked his keeper over with 

 his trunk, and then knowing he had done wrong, had 

 * Another name for water buffaloes. 



