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FOUR DAYS 115 



Bindra Nawagarh Zamindari. The Excise officers 

 of Bengal and the Central Provinces complained 

 of the smuggling of Ganja (a narcotic prepara- 

 tion of hemp) from the Vizagapatam district 

 and the Jaipur Agency tracts. The Madras 

 Government, relying upon incorrect reports sub- 

 mitted by the local officers, contended that no 

 Ganja was produced in this area. The case 

 could not be settled by correspondence, but 

 the facts could easily be ascertained by a local 

 inspection made by anyone possessing the requi- 

 site expert knowledge. Accordingly in Febru- 

 ary 1909 I started from Raipur on a march to 

 the Madras border. My friend Captain Tweedie 

 (now Colonel Tweedie, D.S.O.), accompanied me 

 on the expedition. I had my D.B. "450 cordite 

 rifle and Tweedie had a black powder '500 

 Express. 



After a long and uninteresting march lasting 

 over a fortnight, during which time not a shot 

 was fired, we arrived at a place in Bindra Nawagarh 

 where a man-eating tigress had carried off a few 

 people and had created a scare. The tigress, 

 however, was not to be heard of when we passed 

 through ; and we continued our march. A 

 shikari, whom I had employed, and who had 

 preceded us, reported that there were tigers at a 

 place on the road about two rnarches distant. 

 This information proved to be correct, and on 

 arrival at this place, the name of which was 

 Taurenga, we found that in a sandy nullah, leading 

 from the high-road near the camping-ground, 

 there were many fresh tracks of a tiger and a 

 tigress. A third tiger, as stated by our servants. 



