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policemen stationed at two other sides of the village with guns on the 

 look out, but the panther did not return. Six days then passed and 

 nothing happened except that on two nights the panther was said to 

 have been seen, but as I could not find any tracks in the morning I do 

 not think he was there. On the afternoon of May 15th, I moved my 

 camp back to Chandur, and that evening, at 8 p.m., a large male 

 panther was caught in a pit-fall at the entrance to the village of Nanda, 

 close to the spot where he had dropped the girl on the 9th. The bait 

 was a goat. He was shot in the trap by a police sepoy. 



The man-eater was now supposed to be finished, but at 4 a.m. that 

 very night, at the same village (Nanda), a panther seized a sleeping 

 police sepoy. He was lying on his right side with his left arm over his 

 head, so the panther did not get a good grip at his neck and it was 

 frightened off. The police sepoy walked to my camp and was there by 

 daylight. I found he had a shallow wound on the jaw, another, not 

 more than half an inch deep, on the neck below the left ear, and a 

 good sized hole, more than an inch deep, in the back of the arm 

 close to the armpit, and a slight scratch on the back. He seemed all 

 right. I washed the wounds out with a weak solution of carbolic acid, 

 and as I had a probe, I have no doubt I got to the bottom of the 

 wounds. That day he kept well, though a lot of thin watery blood oozed 

 from the wounds. The next morning his cheek and neck were very 

 much swollen ; the hole in the arm looked all right. I dressed his 

 wounds again and had them well fomented with hot water. At night he 

 breathed with difficulty and died at midnight — 44 hours after being 

 wounded — I presume of blood poisoning. That night, at 9 p.m.,a panther 

 appeared close to my tents and was fired at, but missed by a police 

 sepoy, and the panther again came on the night of May 18th near my 

 tent. While I was sitting in front of my tent at 2 a.m. looking out for it, 

 four cheetul crossed the field and stood within 60 yards of me. The 

 male panther killed was 6 ft. 6 in. long, and I at first thought we had got 

 an innocent panther, but as no further kill took place after that night, I 

 believe he was the right one, and that the one that seized the police 

 sepoy was a female that accompanied him. I ? however, never noticed 

 more than one track at the scene of a kill. At any rate, between the 

 26th April and 9th May, there were five kills — then the male panther 

 was killed on May 15th, and afterwards, on same night, a man seized by 



