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with the tiger under it, trying to kill it with its tusks. It was for this reason! 

 that some days ago I changed from Kam Prasad to Vikram Prasad. Ram^ 

 Prasad had however with his knees and weight practically done for the- 

 tiger but on getting a scratch on the trunk under the right eye he bolted 

 a bit and after it stopped, Ranjit put a bullet into the tiger who, though 

 alive, was really done for and could not get up. Thus ended another 

 red-letter and ever memorable day. All four happened to be tigresses but 

 the three daughters were aU grown up ones measuring 8 ft. 3J in., 8 ft. 

 3 in., 8 ft. OJ in. We got back to camp about 3-30 p.m." 

 The following day, the 1st of April, His Highness obtained his 97th tiger. The 

 2md and 3rd and 4th were blank days. The entry for the 5th reads as fol- 

 lows :— 



"At last Nishan Tapu has yielded us a tiger but, compared with its 

 reputation, and also the actual hunt, it was disappointing and the tigress- 

 led us a rare old dance to-day. Seen early in the morning by our scouts, 

 line of elephants left early after breakfast and we at 1-15. On way 

 heard tiger was ringed in after its having broken through first ring 

 in quicksand patch on bank of Kosi. On our getting there tigress broke- 

 through the ring and back through the line in the next attempt before - 

 ring was completely made. We then beat it out past me in a small patch 

 by force but the cunning old brute went through the only patch of grass- 

 instead of the open and I had a guess shot at her after she had galloped 

 into the tall grass. In the next attempt of the same nature, she charged 

 straight out at my elephant, my two shots getting her in the back just- 

 missing the spine and in the nose too far forward. Pools of blood. In 

 the attempt following she got home and slightly wounded my elephant, 

 Gorakh Prasad, in the trunk with claw scratches, who, considering every- 

 thing, stood wonderfully staunch, though he was rather forced to do so- 

 as we were in somewhat quicksandy ground. Hiru's elephant, Sital Prasad,- 

 who was on my immediate right, seeing the tiger get home on my elephant 

 knelt down anticipating a charge; and the unsteadiness and moving about 

 of the elephants generally, contributed to bad shooting. Several other 

 elephants were mauled — scratches mostly — during the long and tedious 

 hunt. The last time we forced the tigress out of thick grass I managed 

 to break her left leg, though rather low, and Jeoraj Singh and Nawal Singh 

 opposite whom she was lying down close by, finished her off — a fine tigress 

 9 ft. 2 in. with two perfectly marked cubs — male and female — ^which 

 would probably have been born within a week. 



Had a somewhat perilous and uncomfortable journey back, as anticipat- 

 ing a pleasant river ride drifting down stream, as in 1908 on the Gandak, 

 I foolishly agreed to Jabber's proposal and came back by boat. Whilst 

 the elephants got back in one and quarter hours it took us two and half " 

 hours and we had considerable excitement also through boat striking sub- 

 merged trees and stumps and bumping on shallow shoals in the dark." 

 On the 7th April His Highness' shoot was brought to a close. 

 The following is a Summary of the Nepal shoot : — 

 17th March to 7th April, 1920. 



Tigers (Self 15 and Hiru 2) . . 17 



Arna Buffalo .. .. (Self) 1 



Mugger (Hiru) 2 



Total .. 20 



