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before had been dedicated as an offering to the departed, by some 

 devotee, was quietly grazing outside, and soon became very tame. 

 A few days afterwards it was carried away in broad day-light by a 

 Panther. I was busily engaged at the time inside the tent, when I 

 heard a suppressed gurgle from the goat just outside, but thought 

 nothing of it until a short time afterwards, the servant came 

 running in to say what had happened. True enough the hand- 

 ful of black hair and the patches of blood told their own tale — the 

 goat had gone — bodily carried away. I followed up the track until 

 we lost them on the hard ground, my best pagis being away at 

 the time. I sat up for the panther with a live goat in the evening, 

 but although I heard it calling, it never came near me and I never 

 heard of it again in the neighbourhood. 



On the 8th May the pagis sent in hhubber to say that they had 

 found a lion. They had been looking for them ever since my arrival 

 at Moduka. At the same time hhubber was also sent to a brother 

 officer and his friends who were then occupying my old camp at 

 Talala. We all met at Khokra, where again the lion or lions had 

 been marked down. It was not certain how many there were, but 

 only one had been actually seen. The pagis advised a drive, but after 

 past experiences we decided in the end to walk it up. One of us, 

 if not all, was bound to get a shot in this way, whereas it was 

 impossible to say what would be the result of a drive. The lion 

 had been last seen on the brow of a low hill covered with small jungle, 

 lying down in the shade of a small tree. My friends had quite an 

 army of darbarsi sepoys, with them, all armed with antiquated mus- 

 kets, besides the usual paraphernalia of swords, knives, daggers, etc. 

 It certainly would have been safer to have left them all behind, 

 but we did not wish to hurt their feelings; they were all so 

 eager to come with us, so we allowed them to follow close behind 

 us, on the express understanding that they were only to fire 

 in the event of being charged, not otherwise. All being ready, 

 we commenced our stalk, under the guidance of the pagi who 

 had last seen the lion. We reached the top of the hill in dead 

 silence, expecting to see the lion at any moment. It was dis- 

 appointing, therefore, to find it had moved. However, while 



