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sitting in a tree all night over a bill, heard a splash in the water gIosq 

 bj, and there were the two dogs again sitting in the water. This place 

 was about half-way between the two places where they had been pre- 

 viously seen, for I have no doubt that they were the same dogs. He 

 then shot the old one, the young one kept moving through the jungle, a 

 short distance at a time calling for its mother, and though pursued for 

 some way eventually escaped. On opening the stomach of the dog it was 

 full of the flesh and skin of a four-horned antelope, quite fresh, in fact it 

 could only just have been eaten. This seems to prove that the wild 

 dog preys by night as well as by day. That we came across these 

 dogs on three occasions in five days is remarkable, Near my previous 

 camp, some 12 miles off, there were two or three lots of wild dogs. I 

 had shot a tigress in a nullah and had her tied up again in the same 

 place. The men who went to look at the gara on the morning of May 

 24th, reported that it had been killed by dogs, and that they had seen 

 five dogs on it. I sent some men armed with a shot-gun to sit over 

 the carcass and try to shoot them. As they got near the place they saw 

 a dog and shot it. It was a male, not fully grown. He measured 3 feet 

 5 inches in length, of which the tail was 14 inches. In height 15J 

 inches. The brush of the wild dog is usually black throughout, but 

 this specimen had a white tag to his tail. When the men returned they 

 related an extraordinary yarn to the effect that, while sitting near the 

 hill for the dogs to return to it, a herd of bison appeared. A police- 

 man fired his musket at one from a tree and wounded it. He had 

 only one bullet left and reloading he and his companions followed the 

 track and soon came on the wounded bull at which he fired again. 

 The bullet lodged in a tree ; they cut it out, loaded again, and proceed- 

 ed, when a bear popped up quite close. The policeman fired and they 

 all bolted without waiting to see the result. Having had enough 

 sport for the day they returned to camp. I was rather sceptical ; but 

 their story was a true one. Next morning Macleod and Turner of the 

 Hyderabad Cavalry, went to the spot and tracked up the bison, a 

 Small bnll. They killed it. As his shoulder had been broken he had 

 not gone very fiir. On their way back they found the bear, an old 

 male, dead, the bullet having shattered the brain-pan. 



The next morning when the men went to look at a gara they saw 8 

 dogs attacking it by jumping up at its throat and they frightened them 



