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buffaloes. He killed two of the forest elephants 

 engaged in timber work, so that the working 

 elephants had to be removed. He would enter 

 a village, make for the cattle enclosures and 

 destroy every buffalo he saw. Bullocks he 

 would not touch, nor did he show any particular 

 animosity to human beings ; but buffaloes seemed 

 to be his pet aversion. On one occasion he kept a 

 whole village within their huts for two days in his 

 vain attempts to enter a stone enclosure, such as 

 the natives use for penning cattle, in which there 

 was a herd of buffaloes. 



A large Government reward was now offered for 

 his destruction, and numerous native shikarees 

 endeavoured to bag him without success. He 

 was frequently shot at and received many 

 wounds, and at length became so wary that 

 he was seldom seen, and it was only news of 

 his continued depredations here to-day, twenty 

 miles off next day that kept up the terror of his 

 name. 



The story of how this cunning brute was circum- 

 vented and at length laid low I will tell in 

 another chapter. 



