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off. This was at the foot of some hills about a mile from the previous 

 place. The gara had some bites in the throat from the effect of which 

 it died, and on the same night another gara was also bitten by wild 

 dogs at a different place. Whether these dogs all formed part of one 

 pack and were separately hunting, or distinct padnss I do not know. 



I only remember one other instance of a gara being attacked by wild 

 dogs. This was several years before. On going to the place I found 

 the tuft of hair at the end of the buffalo's tail pulled out and lying 

 on the ground with some drops of blood, but no sign of the buffalo. I 

 never found it or any trace of it. The tracks of the dogs and of the 

 buffalo were numerous at the spot, but could not be followed, as the 

 ground was too hard. I could never make out what becam.e of the 

 animal. 



On two occasions only have I seen wild dogs in pursuit of their 

 game. I mentioned the circumstances in a paper on samber, Vol. VIII, 

 page 394, as follows : — 



" The first time they pulled down a calf about 150 yards from where I was. 

 I heard a squealing and the loud barks of the mother, who stood close to the 

 scene of the tragedy. Thinking a tiger had killed, I stalked up to the noise, 

 and when close to, saw a yellow mass that I took to be a tiger, and was just 

 going to fire when to my astonishment it split up into a dozen pieces and 

 disappeared, I found the calf with its entrails torn out and eaten, part of 

 the ramp was eaten, and the eyes picked out — all in a few seconds. I hid 

 myself behind a tree and in about 20 minutes the pack of dogs returned, they 

 passed me within 15 yards, in single file, a dozen in number, ten paces between 

 each dog, I, with difiBculty, refrained from firing. I was between them and 

 the samber, and they made a circuit and came up to the carcass from the 

 opposite direction. As the leading dog reached the body, I could not 

 wait any more, I fired and missed it, but luckily got one with the second 

 barrel as they bolted. It was a female, and had the exact smell of a domestic 

 dog. The second time I was sitting on the banks of the Taptee, having break- 

 fast, when a hind and a calf rush down the opposite bank into the stream, 

 which here was shallow and running pretty strong. On reaching the middle 

 she stood in the water with her calf under her body, and I saw two wild 

 dogs, in pursuit, stop at the water's edge. They uttered loud wailing howls, 

 but the old hind and the young one seemed quite comfortable, the little one 

 with its tail up frisking about under and around its mother. In a short time 

 the dogs went away, and in about ten minutes afterwards the hind and calf 

 went back to the same side they had come from and walked slowly off„ 

 You would have thought they would not have gone back to the same side as 



