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bleeding with tannin, and then put iodoform 

 on the wounds. The place was a Sub-Divisional 

 Headquarters, and the officer in charge sent us, 

 on appHcation, a string-bed and four men, and 

 we started the boy off to the hospital at Nahan, 

 which was only 17 miles away uphill. Within a 

 month he was back in his home completely cured, 

 having escaped blood poisoning. The boy 

 probably owed his life to Colonel Triscott, and the 

 Medical Officer in charge of the Nahan Hospital 

 expressed warm approval of the manner in which 

 the case had been treated. I sat up for the 

 panther over a bait on the following evening, 

 but without success. 



An Indian by the name of Waris, who was, 

 and perhaps still is, the headman of the village 

 of Mari, opposite Kalabagh, on the Indus, invented 

 a novel and ingenious method of capturing mahser. 

 Into a smooth-bored gun he fitted a barbed 

 arrow, which projected about four inches from the 

 muzzle, and to the arrow below the head he 

 attached a coil of strong cord. The gun was 

 loaded in the ordinary way, but with half a 

 charge of gunpowder, and the cord was kept 

 in a coil at the fisherman's side. In the spring 

 season the fry make their way up the Indus, 

 hugging the bank as they go, and the big mahser 

 raid the shoals in their upward progress, rocks 

 on the bank projecting into the stream being a 

 favourite place of attack. During an attack a 

 big fish often shows himself upon the surface. 

 Armed with his gear, Waris would lie, with 

 the unwearied patience of the Oriental, upon a 

 rock watching the stream until a fish showed 



