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swamp at the other side of the ridge. We followed 

 as hard as we could make the elephants go, the 

 mahouts hammering them on the head with the 

 ancus (hook) and the piadahs (footmen) on the tail 

 with the moogries. We came up to the swamp ia 

 about five or six minutes, and, forming line, beat 

 right up it. It was not very deep on the side I took 

 with H. and D., the opposite one to the trees, but 

 near the trees the water was very deep, as we after- 

 wards found. 



" B. remained on the ridge to receive the tiger did 

 he get up the hill after breaking cover. We moved 

 steadily on, and out he came with the usual two 

 roars. I was fortunate in getting the first shot at 

 about forty yards distant. The ball struck him in 

 the neck, and without a struggle he rolled over, dead. 

 We pushed up, and foimd him floating; the ball 

 had struck just as he was entering the deep water to 

 make for the bank where B. was waiting. We 

 dragged him out, and found that it was a fine, full- 

 grown tigress, very prettily marked. We sent her 

 off to camp at once to be skinned, and went on 

 in the direction of another swamp not far ahead. 

 The Muela swamp is very extensive — one of the real 

 primeval productions of nature — and dismal, wild, 

 and gloomy it looks ; but, as it turned out, a rare 

 cover for tigers. The water in the centre for great 

 part of its length is deep and dark ; large alli- 

 gators and strange-looking fish make their appear- 

 * The moogrie is a club with sharp spikes ia it. 



