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the dogs were. On the same day a couple of hours afterwards, two dogs, 

 which I believe must have been the same ones, ran a bull nilghai into the river 

 opposite my tent. I did not see it myself, but my butler informed me that 

 they tore its stomach open just as it reached the river. The nilghai swam 

 across and sank when half way over, the dogs not following into the water." 



On both occasions the dogs ran mute, though on the latter they 

 gave tongue after the samber had taken to the water. In " Game " by 

 " Hawkeye " there is a good paper on the wild dog, and I agree with 

 the opinion there expressed that the wild dog seizes its prey at the 

 flank, rending the skin and causing the entrails to protrude. This is 

 the most natural thing to do when seizing a large animal in full flight. 

 In the paper already mentioned at Vol. X, page 127, it is stated that 

 they seize their game by the eyes, if possible. The instance of the 

 samber calf that was killed close to me shows that the eyes are eaten 

 immediately, but I doubt whether they seize at that spot. 



The following account oft the extreme voracity of the wild dog as 

 related by an Indian Munchausen I don't remember having seen in 

 print. He said that 12 dogs pulled down a samber close to him 

 which was speedily devoured, eleven of the dogs then turned on the 

 twelfth and killed and ate him, ten then killed and ate the eleventh, and 

 so on until only one dog remained, who had thus succeeded in getting 

 into his inside his eleven companions and the samber. The sportsman 

 then thought it time to fire, but just as he was about to do so, the dog 

 burst and spoilt the shot. 



