50 AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 
of finding htm. The next day I sent some men to look him 
up ; they followed the track for some distance and noticed 
that the tiger had gone away on three legs. From what I 
know now I should say the beast was hit, for I never knew or 
heard of a tiger leaving the marks of his claws on the ground 
AN- UNBXPBCTED atEF.TlN'a. 
unless he was wounded, as he cannot afford"^ blunt them. 
This was the only tiger we saw, except one which my com- 
panion Watson came upon quite suddenly ; he was looking 
over a bank into a nullah » when he saw a large tiger lying 
down quite close to him ; the brute was wide awake, got up, 
