MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 279 



Tepoes # (varieties of Elettaria), among which the alang-alang 

 and other grasses were mostly choked ; it was therefore certainly 

 thickly shaded, but as a rule one could see to a distance of 

 10 to 15 paces of himself, with the exception of rougher spots, every- 

 where intervening, woven throughout with various creepers. The 

 best of this tract for our hunt consisted in this, that the tiger's tracks 

 were easier to find here in the soft clay and rotting layer of leaves 

 than above on the buffalo pasture. Here and there the golloks 

 had to be taken in hand to clear a passage for us. Steepness, 

 slipperiness and foot-entangling roots here gave the most tro uble € 

 Now and then the leaders lost the trace and all had to come up 

 and look right and left for the right trace again. The tiger had 

 taken a peculiar road: first southwards up-stream ; next straight 

 down towards the hall, apparently to drink; after that again 

 northwards down-stream. With stubborn patience the j^<s indienne 

 of hunters followed through the dripping branches, until, after 

 an hour and a half we saw footprints so fresh that, the parti- 

 cles of earth seemed not yet to have settled down ; we also again 

 found vomited flesh, etc., so that we had the certainty, that the 

 right trace was not lost ( among other tiger tracks ). 



" We had forced our way through a patch somewhat overgrown 

 with glagah, when the foremost man had suddenly stood still 

 imagining he heard rustling through the foliage ; here the 

 trace unexpecteddly diverged somewhat to the right; the file of the 

 hunters was somewhat broken in the search for the new trace, 

 H. and the mandoers and other natives with him formed a sort of 

 right-wing ; Aspan the cowherd and Baha Djoelong went in front; 

 I was No. 3 of the file. Baba Was a pace or so in front of ine j 

 when I saw him lift his gun. The report of the explosion in the 

 thick jungle mingled with the fierce and to us delightful roar 

 of the tiger found at last. I spring hastily forward, catch a 

 glimpse through the bushes of part of the back and shoulder 

 of the enemy creeping up towards an eminence, black cross- 

 stripes on a yellowish ground — and the deep voice of ' si mariam? 



Tejpus.—k. scitameneotis plant, Geanthus coccineus."— RiGG's S. D, 



