BKEEDING-PLACE. 175 



One of their favourite breecling-places was 

 discovered, a few years ago, by Wilson, up 

 the Gangoutrie valley, not far from the 

 scene of his night adventure with the tigress. 

 The spot the dogs had chosen was near the 

 crest of a ridge, in a steep and rocky part of 

 the oak forest, where the ground was full of 

 holes and caverns. " My shikaree," relates 

 Wilson, " happening to pass by, killed and 

 brought home two of them, a male and 

 female. The teats of the latter being full 

 of milk, it was evident she had but lately 

 pujDped, and I determined to have a hunt 

 for the young ones. The shikaree said he 

 had done his best to find them, but there 

 were so many different holes, all of which 

 bore unmistakeable traces of being tenanted, 

 that it was impossible he could tell in which 

 they were ; whilst the distance these caverns 

 ran beneath the ground, which was nothing 

 but a half-buried mass of broken rocks, 

 would render the digging them out a most 

 herculean task, even if at all practicable. 



" Confident, however, that a little perse- 



