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then gracefully bounded away into a patch of high grass : it was too 

 dark lo hunt her out of this. 



Our lliird evening's expedition revealed other members of this 

 interesting family ; there were two about one-third grown, and who 

 had up to this kept themselves quite in the background. Monkeys, in 

 their case, betrayed the paternal domains, from the incessant chatter- 

 ings with which they greeted the appearance of the juvenile tigers 

 whenever they, in the exuberance of animal spirits, came out to 

 gambol on the sands of the Malun. My practised ear caught the well 

 understood chattering, and our party at once drove off to the place. 

 It is needless to go into further details — -we found the youngsters, and 

 mortally wounded one: it was getting dark when we found them, and 

 as the wounded fellow had managed to take cover in enormously 

 thick and tall grass, we left him here that evening. 



The following morning, proceeding to the spot, we were struck with 

 the appearance of fresh marks of the huge male : these we followed, 

 but, befi)re starting the trail, I arranged a number of men on trees 

 commanding the ap])roaches to all the likely looking pieces of tall 

 grass, determined, now that we had the fresh tracks of the male, and 

 a whole day before us to look for him, to spare no exertions in hunt- 

 ing him down. It was necessary to place men in trees to watch, as, 

 with our two pad elephants, we could neither do the driving to per- 

 fection nor see the tiger whenever he moved in the tall grass, which 

 in some bits was nearly on level with our heads ; so had to depend on 

 our watcher to give us the direction whenever he moved. 



The tracks, after leading to various little glades and salt licks, the 

 usual resorts for deer, returned and entered the patch of tall grass in 

 which we had left the wounded youngster of the previous evening. 

 Having seen the gentleman to his door, and thinking discretion the 

 better part of valour, 1 mounted my pad : the elephants, on being 

 driven in, began with their short grunts and evident restlessness, 

 plainly to indicate that master tiger was to be found at home. Once 

 down the line — twice beat back again — a third time obliquely with 

 the two first, — but no tiger. Somebody, however, happening to look 

 down into a hole just then, perceived something like the head and 

 feet of a tiger: a halt was immediately called, and examination pro- 

 ceeded with, when — what was it? but the head, two fore feet, one 

 hind leg and tail of the young tiger we had left in that grass the pre- 

 vious evening. I closely examined the ground, collected all the evi- 

 dence fioiu marks, &c., left by the big male, and the conclusion was 



