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His eyes were bulging and he kept snapping at us. At one tims he gnawed at 
the legs of his bed and bit through the strings. After an hour he was sick and 
continued vomiting until his stomach was empty. This was followed by retch- 
ing every few minutes, and he evidently broke a blood vessel as he brought up 
some blood. He was much exhausted and lay on his side. He then passed a 
lot of blood through his rectum while on the ground. From the time he began 
to vomit, the attacks of severe pain became less frequent. About 1-30 a. m., he 
seemed much quieter and I had him cleaned and put on a soft bed of grass. At 
2 a.m. I gave him two dessert spoonfuls of brandy and water and he went off 
to sleep in half an hour. At 7 a.m., he was a little weak but otherwise alright. 
I gave him milk diet on that day which he took sparingly, and he is now quite 
fit and well. 
E. O’BRIEN, L1.-CoLtone.. 
Buus, Curcu, 9th June 1921. 
No. XI1.—A PANTHER’S INDIFFERENCE. 
I had the luck to bag a fine panther yesterday, of a size somewhat 
remarkable for the Kanara District ; a male, length 7’-2”.. The circumstan- 
ces which are very peculiar may be of interest for the records of the 
Society as they indicate an extraordinary lack of fear of man in the animal 
concerned. Yesterday afternoon, the 21st May, I left Mungod, on my 
Motor Cycle for Konankeri, a distance of 10 miles, to shikar cheetal at the 
latter place. Having spent an enjoyable though unsuccessful afternoon 
there, I started on the return journey to Mungod about 20 minutes before 
sundown. I had replaced my rifle in its leather case which was again 
padded by several yards of cloth wound round it, and the whole securely 
strapped by many passes of the strap, to the Motor Cycle carrier. As I 
reckoned on getting home before dark, I opened the throttle and the 
exhaust cut out, and the machine being a powerful Harley Davidson I was 
travelling at over 30 miles an hour to the accompaniment of a very great 
deal of noise and dust, About two miles from Konankeri coming round a 
bend, I saw a large panther sitting on the road side. I immediately cut 
off the engine and braked, and came to a standstill twenty yards past him: 
it was lucky that he was not directly in my line of travel. Having dis- 
mounted and pulled the machine up on the stand I allowed myself a hasty 
glance and noticed that the panther was still sitting on his haunches and 
quite unalarmed though the dust of my sudden passage was yet eddying 
round him. I immediately began to unpack the rifle with all haste, 
keeping my back to the panther. It wasa full half minute before the 
rifle could be got ready for action possibly longer : then when I looked 
again he was gone. I walked back the 20 yards to the spot I passed him, 
and saw him at once ; he was lying at the foot of a tree ten yards inside 
the jungle, and looked up at me quite unconcernedly without evincing the 
slightest intention of moving. 1 believe I could have taken five minutes 
over my aim had I so desired, but as he was offering his full broadside at 
ten yards range this was quite unnecessary. I put a bullet through the 
middle of the target, passing an inch behind the heart, and he dropped 
dead at the end of al5 yard run. The rifle I was using used to be the 
official property of a German infantryman. I had brought it from Ypres. 
as a souvenir in 1917, It is of the 7mm. mauser pattern. Having dragged 
the panther to the road, with the commandeered assistance of two cartmen 
who were approaching within fifty yards of me when I fired, by the pers 
bined effort of the three of us it was hoisted across the Motor Cycle carrier 
and secured by a ten foot strap, its extremities being tied away from the 
