CHAPTER VI 
CONSERVATORS’ WORK (Continued) 
In the Bahraich District we attached to ourselves a 
Mohammedan of the name of Abdul, who remained 
with us till his death, the most courageous, eager, 
and faithful servant and friend that it was possible 
for any man to have. To him we owed most of the 
success attained at this period in the Oudh forests, 
for it was he who found out where the big game lay 
and concerted with us the arrangements for a meet- 
ing. Every day before dawn he was away into the 
heart of the forest ; at every camp he arrived a day 
before us, and without his skilful help we should 
never have had time to spare from professional work 
for both tracking and hunting. Nor would his 
assistance have been so valuable had he not been 
able to distinguish in his reports between fact and 
imagination ; supplied with the former, our intimate 
knowledge of the forest stood us in good stead, while 
his patience, courage, and sharp-sightedness when 
tracking, seldom gave any opening for escape to a 
wounded animal. Thirty-five tigers and an unre- 
corded number of panthers and bears we killed 
together ; and to the last, when he fell a victim to 
dysentery, that scourge of the jungle, we had the 
fullest confidence in each other as brother-sportsmen. 
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