HONAMA AND HIS MEN. 77 



As I walked down tlie ghaut that 

 morning, towards Ancola, I noticed 

 something stirring in a puddle left 

 by the rain of the previous day, 

 and, stopping to look, found a tiny 

 fish, about an inch long, and shaped 

 like a roach or carp. Neither pond 

 nor stream was near; the puddle was 

 rain-water, and the fish was well and 

 lively ; how came it there ? I can only 

 conclude that it came down — as fish 

 have been known to do — in the shower, 

 and that if others fell at the same time 

 on the path, birds or beasts must have 

 carried them off. 



Another leopard was killed during 

 the rains, near Sedasheghur, seventeen 

 miles north of Belikeri, in a very gallant 

 manner by a fine young fellow of the 



