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claannel in the o-round, aucl was brought up against a charred old 

 trunk o£ teak-wood. It seized the nearest branch and bit furiously 

 at it, and clawed it and bit it again and ao-ain, roariaof and o-rowling 

 horribly. My shot had caught it below the wither, grazed the 

 spine and gone down between the shoulders towards the heart, 

 paralysing it from the shoulders back. 1 shouted to the men that it 

 was killed, and when it heard my voice it turned its head over and 

 glared at me and snarled and struggled to rise — perhaps it was just 

 as well that it was not able. It still seemed lively enough so I gave 

 it another shot, which smashed up the spine still more, and then I 

 got down, and with rifle in one hand and camera in the other, walked 

 up to fifteen feet of it, and took its picture while it was still alive and 

 snarling at me, shewing its teeth in impotent fury. 



It was an unusually large tigress, 107g inches from nose to tail, 

 tail being 36 inches. The skin measured 123 inches v/hen pegged 

 out. The hard bit of teak-wood had a number of holes in it nearly 

 an inch deep from her bites. 



On the 8th of May I met another tigress, and had quite a lively 

 time before I held an inquest on her remains. She gave rather a 

 hard shot at about fifty yards, cantering through scattered bamboo 

 jungle. My first shot hit her hard on the foreleg, about six inches 

 too low, and my second smashed on a bamboo, only a splash of load 

 cutting her off foreleg. She roared two or three times when hit, 

 which tigresses very rarely do, and went on, up and down hill, tind 

 up again, nearly three miles in a circle. We followed the trail, 

 which was very plain as she bled freely ; four men tracking and I 

 hokling my rifle at the ready through thick low jungle — very 

 e.Kciting it was, as she might have pulled up anywhere, and we 

 could at times barely see twenty yards ahead. The trail gradually 

 became thinner, but led towards a cave on a spur, and we made a 

 detour so as to come on the rocks from above. She was not there, 

 and we had lost the trail, but a tiny speck of blood on a stone near 

 where we were standing shewed that she had come up the rocks. 

 For nearly half an hour we could find no trail. The ground was very 

 hard. At last after several casts round on a plateau near the hill top 

 we recovered it. It led towards the highest ridge of the hill, and 

 the men said there was another cave there. More blood stains on 

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