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with me my telescope-eyed man Ossaroo, I 

 returned to the marked tree ; Wilson went 

 back to where we had breakfasted the pre- 

 vious day, and Colls cruised in the offing, on 

 the look-out. Fortune befriended me ; for I 

 had hardly reached the spot where the dog 

 had been last seen, when Ossaroo spied 

 him crawling out from under a rock, 

 where he had passed the night, and he 

 was soon hunting about again with his 

 companions. 



The loss of dogs, is one of the accidents, to 

 which sportsmen in the hills, are especially 

 liable, owing to the number of leopards 

 prowhng about, and never missing an 

 opportunity of carrying one off. Once 

 before I had lost one for four days, 

 and only found him after a long search, 

 when nearly starved. We could see by 

 his tracks on the road down to Mussoorie, 

 that he had stopped at several places, 

 which he had visited with us, on our 

 way up, and he was, when we met him, 

 retracing his steps in a miserable plight. 



