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caught him up, but at this moment he had fortunately 

 reached the tree, and seizing a branch, swung himself up. 

 The tigress, however, by getting a momentary hold for 

 her claws on the trunk, seized him by the leg, inflicting 

 two deep wounds, but luckily the man held on, for had he 

 loosed his grip nothing could have saved him. 



I had a perfect view of these proceedings from my tree, 

 but the distance — about ninety yards — was too great for 

 accurate shooting, and by the time I had climbed down 

 and reached the spot, the tigress had gone back into the 

 cover whence she had charged. 



We bandaged up the man, and making a litter of boughs, 

 sent him off to camp. Meanwhile, the tigress could be 

 heard growling savagely in the covert, and thinking she 

 would probably repeat her tactics, and so give me a shot, 

 I quietly mounted the tree on which the man had been, 

 while the Bhils bombarded her with stones, but failed to 

 make her move. 



There was nothing for it now but to walk her up, in 

 other words, to attack her in her stronghold, so, collecting 

 a few likely looking men, we approached the spot, but had 

 not gone very far, when out she rushed with a loud roar, 

 and before I had time to fire had gained the shelter of an 

 overhanging ledge of rock, disappearing into some dense 

 jungle below, where I had to leave her for the night. 



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