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some three miles down the road, and that if we 

 cared to investigate, we might find him still around 

 the carcass. We accordingly took out our guns and 

 walked to the spot on the road where the animal had 

 been killed. Here the jungle was dense on both 

 sides of the road, but we found the path the tiger had 

 made in dragging his prey away, and followed it 

 straight into the rukh to the remains of the slaugh- 

 tered bullock, whose limbs had evidently been well 

 chewed and scattered not far from the body itself. 

 I noticed several fresh paw-marks in the mud, 

 which on account of the rains could not have been 

 more than a day old. As we were bending over 

 them, there was the distinct sound of an animal 

 escaping into the jungle ; both trackers at once said, 

 "Rimau!" ("tiger!") and appeared much excited. 

 But a tiger slinks away silently, and though the 

 men assured us that they had heard a growl, we at- 

 tributed the noise to a deer and returned to the vil- 

 lage, feeling that, however much game there might 

 be in the country, tracking was out of the question, 

 so dense and pathless was the jungle. 



Rain had now poured steadily for several days, 

 turning the roads into sluices, which rendered the 

 journey to the next post, Janing, exceptionally try- 

 ing ; to take a bullock-cart through that wilderness 

 of mud was out of the question. We learned, how- 



