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of the water, and there I had to leave it till my 

 servant returned with a cart from Seegor. The 

 villagers of Seegor on arrival pronounced the tiger 

 to be the man-eater of Bandypore, but this I was 

 not inclined to credit as I then believed in the 

 mange theory. However, I allowed them to carry 

 the body in triumph to Seegor, where certain cere- 

 monies were performed by the village priest over 

 the dead tiger's body. On careful measurement 

 before skinning, the length from tip of tail to snout 

 was ten feet two inches. After skinning the length 

 was nearly eleven feet. I wrote to the Collector 

 of Coimbatore relating the circumstance of the kill, 

 and some two months later received a letter of 

 thanks and a Government reward of two hundred 

 rupees for having unwittingly shot the man-eater 

 of Bandypore. 



