90 TME MOTAl TIGSS OF SENOAZ. 



determined to do miscliief. The aheers (cowherds) 

 who took us to the place, said they had often 

 watched her feeding the cuhs and teaching them 

 to hunt and kill. The piece of ground where 

 we killed her was covered with the remains of 

 cows, deer, etc. ; as, indeed, aU along and in the 

 swamp we had observed the same. In fact, this 

 seems to have been a most favourite stronghold 

 for them." 



'^ March 27th. — We did not get the tigress after 

 all, though we found her traces in the swamp, in the 

 shape of a newly-killed, almost warm, cow. She had 

 heard us coming and sneaked off into the forest, 

 which is dense on either side, and where there would 

 not be the slightest chance of finding her. "We there- 

 fore gave her up with reluctance, and struck off due 

 westwards, towards a large swamp near Hilowna 

 Gowrie, where we are to pitch our tents to-night. 

 We were more successful here, for we got a very 

 fine tiger in the swamp. We hardly expected to have 

 got anything in it, for it looked more like a large 

 Jheel than a Bhagar. The grass was short, and in 

 many places there was really no cover at all. We 

 put up quantities of partridges, snipe, painted snipe, 

 and hog deer, and I was preparing to have a shot at 

 the next partridge that rose, when suddenly I heard 

 two or three shots to my left, and in another 

 moment the well-remembered growls of a wounded 

 and angry tiger. D. and B. had put him out of a 

 cliunp of long grass and sent him over to H. 



