94 IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. 



return to the platform ; and there, adhering to a 

 stone, was a small splash of blood and a little 

 human hair. The splash was recent and evidently 

 made by a body being drawn over the stone. The 

 search was redoubled, but all in vain ; not a cranny 

 or nook that would hide a hare was left unprobed. 



Sivaite temples are built in the form of a square, 

 for about eight feet of their height, and within 

 this square is the altar or fane. Above the square 

 a four-sided pyramid, highly ornamented, rises 

 to a greater or less height, according to the size 

 of the temple. Archways about eighteen inches 

 high generally pierce the pyramid from side to 

 side. One wall of the square had slightly fallen 

 down at the top, and here also a splash of blood 

 was observed. The men quickly surrounded the 

 temple, and one or two who had mounted the 

 terrace from which the pyramid starts, now 

 announced that the wolf was within the low arch 

 and that a dead body was there also ! We were 

 quickly drawn up on the terrace, and there sure 

 enough was the wolf, crouched behind the dead 

 body and snarling viciously. A well-directed shot 

 from Cumberledge killed him on the spot, and one 

 of the Bheels drew out the dead body of the gold- 

 smith, and that of a large-sized female wolf. Not 

 a trace of a wolf-boy was however to be seen 

 anywhere about. The goldsmith's body was only 

 partly eaten, the stomach being nearly gone. The 

 tooth marks in the neck showed how he must have 

 been seized by the wolf and all cry stifled, while 

 death must have been almost instantaneous. The 



