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spot, they were horrified at hearing" a loud 

 roar in the immediate vicinity of the dead 

 tiger ; however, our people were too much 

 in the habit of being disturbed to be long 

 taken aback, and they were up into the 

 trees in an instant. They were hardly 

 stowed away safely among the branches 

 before they saw a magnificent female tiger 

 steal out of the jungle and walked delibe- 

 rately to the one I had shot, smelling it and 

 walking all round it. She then began to 

 roar in a frightful manner, when, as if 

 suddenly recollecting something, she 

 walked off briskly, making all the jungle 

 resound with her cries ; and, after a little 

 while, other tigers took up the tune, 

 making the whole jungle hideous with 

 their hoarse roaring, but no animals were 

 in sight. Then my father and his party 

 were not long in descending the trees, and 



