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civilized Eastern population—habits which he may 
condemn, but which he must acknowledge to have 
good reasons for their origin. 
The story of my visitor was related in a voice 
trembling with rage, and in few words. A tiger had 
attacked the buffaloes as they were returning in 
single file from grazing, and had wantonly killed 
three cows near to the cattle-station. As a rule 
the jungle tribes will not readily give information as 
to the whereabouts of a tiger, and it is not till he 
passes the bounds of neighbourly acquaintance that 
they ask for help or set to work to remove him; 
thus, the killing of plough or milch cattle destroys 
at once the neutrality which is the etiquette of 
forest life, while the tiger that contents himself 
with hunting game may live unmolested. The latter 
goes and comes amongst the herdsmen and their 
cattle, and is sometimes even seen by the night 
watchmen as he prowls around the fields in the hope 
of seizing a meal from amongst the trespassing herds 
of deer. 
On our arrival at the cattle-station the dead 
buffaloes were visited; each had fallen on the narrow 
homeward track, and there was no sign of a struggle. 
None had been dragged or eaten; it was evidently 
the work of a powerful tiger, dealing death for the 
love of sport. The Gujar was asked if he knew 
where the tiger was, and we followed as he strode 
gloomily through the forest leading to the banks of 
a stream lying to the north-west of Sathidna. On the 
edge of a patch of grass, nowhere more than breast- 
high and not a quarter of an acre in extent, the 
Gujar halted, and announced that the tiger was 
