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That night, i.e., of the 27th April, he was wandering close to my 

 tents most of the night, and was seen by several of my people. On 

 the night of the 28th April he killed a man at a village called Chandur 

 about two miles from my camp. I did not see this body. He was 

 frightened off the man and visited my camp later in the night and 

 came close up to the tents, but before I could get round to the spot 

 he had moved off and I did not see him. Shortly afterwards I heard 

 shouting in the village and learnt he had caught a dog and carried it 

 off. I then moved camp to Chandur. The next I heard of the brute 

 was that, on the night of the 30th April, he had killed a boy aged 7 

 years (the son of the Bania who was supplying my camp) at the village 

 of Nanda about four miles off. The boy was sleeping on the same cot 

 as a man, in the open space in front of a hut, which was the outside one 

 of the village. The head of the cot was against the otla of the hut and 

 the boy was the furthest from the road. The panther came on to the 

 otla, passed the man and seized the boy and went clear off with him. 

 The body was not found and must have been entirely eaten. Nothing 

 was heard of the panther till the night of May 4th, when he appeared 

 close to my tent at Chandur. I had a lamp put out in the field, 

 twenty yards off, and sat on a camp-stool hoping he would come 

 between me and the light, for, as there was no moon, I could not see. 

 He, however, went to the village and killed a calf. On the night of 

 May 6th he killed a woman at the village of Nimni seven miles away. 

 I moved camp on the 7 th to Nanda, where he was expected to turn 

 up soon, and he did not disappoint expectations, as, at 11 p.m. on 

 the night of May 9th, I heard an uproar at a house in the village 80 

 yards from my tent. As I always had my rifle and lamp ready, I was 

 at the spot in a couple of minutes and saw the track left by a 

 body being dragged down the village road. Followed by a number 

 of villagers all shouting at the top of their voices I ran along 

 the trail, and in 50 yards came to a large patch of blood where 

 the panther had evidently dropped the body ; he had taken it 

 on again ; a few yards more the road cleared the houses and 

 took a sharp turn to the left into a field, and, soon after turning 

 the corner, we ran on to the body. The panther could only just have 

 left, as there was no blood when I first arrived and in a few minutes a 

 large pool formed. I at first thought it was a gray-haired woman, but 



