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keep perfectly silent ; then with a few picked men I myself slowly made 

 my way from tree to tree inside the cordon thus formed, towards the centre, 

 sending up flankers into the trees on both sides of me to examine the ground 

 immediately to the front and flanks ; bushes and thick patches of grass into 

 which it was difficult to see were stoned by the men in trees from a supply 

 provided for that purpose, particular attention was paid that no attempt 

 should be made to explore the ground too far ahead whilst proceeding 

 in this way, as by so doing places in the immediate vicinity might escape 

 proper search ; also that stones were only thrown at marks specified, and 

 then fnly when instructed by me, so that I could concentrate all my 

 attention on each spot in turn and so guard against surprise. 



Having at length arrived at about 80 yards from where the tiger was 

 supposed to be lying without having received any indications of its presence, 

 I was not sorry to hear a man call out from the very top of a small tree 

 close by that he could see a portion of the animal's skin. Giving my rifle 

 to one of the four or five men who had collected near, I told the man in the 

 tree to come down and myself proceeded to take his place. Having reached 

 the topmost branch, which was very slender and swayed most unpleasantly, 

 I called for the rifle. Just as I did so, out came the tiger from about 80 

 yards off, bounding over the grass towards the knot of men standing at the 

 foot of the tree. After coming on about 50 yards or so, it lost heart, or did 

 not think it " good enough," as, whisking round, back it went again, and by the 

 time I could get hold of the rifle was out of sight. As it was now getting 

 dark, we returned to camp and eventually bagged it with the help of 

 buffaloes next day. 



On another occasion I was wandering through the jungle early one morning 

 looking for a suitable place in which to tie up a hela — two natives followed 

 some distance behind — on the bank of a stream met a small crocodile 

 making for the water and shot it, leaving the two natives to bring it along. 

 I went on ahead, but had not proceeded more than 300 yards, when my 

 progress was arrested by a deep narrow nullah overgrown with grass which 

 crossed the path at right angles. I was standing on the bank of this and 

 inwardly debating as to whether it would afford sufficient cover for a tiger 

 to lay up in after killing in the vicinity, when from almost under my feet, 

 and certainly not more than ten yards away, out bounded a fine tiger looking 

 exactly like a long striped barrel on legs, and with a cough or two made off 

 at full gallop across an open space on the other side of the nullah, about 

 60 or 70 yards across. Hastily cocking, I managed to get off both barrels, the 

 second just as he was disappearing. Calling up the two men and pursuing the 

 method I just described, I gradually worked across the open space and arrived 

 at the spot where the tiger was last seen by me. Here we were brought 

 to a stop by a small hollow having a precipitous drop of some 20 feet. Not 

 seeing anything here :we were proceeding along the edge of this .hollow at 



