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commenced, and this had driven the bison down 

 from the hills into the damp grass land near 

 the sandy nullahs. The grass in places was 

 dense and high, affording good cover. 



In the morning Tweedie and the hunters picked 

 up some fresh bison tracks and followed them. 

 I rode straight to camp, and on the way noticed 

 the track of a good bull bison which had crossed 

 the sandy nullah near the camp. Tweedie' s hunt 

 was unsuccessful ; and he decided to sit for another 

 night over the carcase of the bullock which had 

 been killed by the tiger. There was not much 

 hope of the tiger returning ; but I have seen a 

 good tiger shot over a buffalo which a tigress 

 had killed and deserted two days before, and 

 which the tiger had found and dragged into 

 cover. 



In the course of the day Kana, the tracker, 

 arrived, having been sent to our camp by my 

 friend Mr. Lowrie, who was then the Divisional 

 Forest Officer of Raipur. Kana had a henchman 

 with him on this occasion whose name I forget, 

 but he was a good tracker. I had not much 

 hope of getting a bison, but, to induce Kana to 

 make the utmost efforts, I promised him a reward 

 of thirty rupees, which is a large sum for a 

 Gond, if he should succeed in getting me a shot ; 

 and at 3 p.m. we started to explore the ground 

 into which the bull, whose tracks I had seen 

 in the morning, had crossed. We walked along 

 high ground for three hours ; and at about 

 6 p.m. descended into the damp ground near 

 the nullah, where the grass was very high, and 

 there we saw bison. The nearest one was about 



