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Al^TEK RHINOCEROS. 
ingenious plan to keep them away ; he carefully carved a 
tigers foot in wood and stamped the impression in every 
direction leading to this piece of jungle ; after a time news 
was brought in by another wood cutter of these numerous 
tracks ; on first visiting the ground there appeared to be 
little doubt as to its being much frequented by a tiger, but 
on carefully inspecting the foot prints, it was discovered 
that they were ail made by om fool. 
I offered large rewards to get a shot at a tiger, but though 
I often sat up for one I never once had a chance. There was 
however some very fair snipe shooting to be got in the 
cultivated grounds, 
1 made a short expedition to some high ground on to the 
main land beyond Jahore ; it was all through forest, and we 
more than once came across fresh tracks of rhinoceros. I 
was most anxious to shoot one of these beasts and kept 
an eager look out^ but though on our return we saw their 
fresh tracks obliterating our footmarks, fortune did not favour 
us. On this occasion shortly after passing these tracks, I 
thought I was going to have a bit of good luck ; I was 
advancing some distance in front of the rest of the party, 
when I spied up a vista in the forest, what I thought was a 
rhinoceros standing by a tree ; I could only see its head and 
ear, the tree hiding the rest of the body. I could see the 
ear distinctly moving backwards and forwards. Making 
signs to the people to stop, with beating heart I crept from 
tree to tree, and when I at last came within range, imagine 
my disappointment on finding that the ear was a solitary dead 
leaf and that the head was a combination of a dead branch 
and a bush ; the leaf being moved by the wind gave it such 
a life like appearance that I was very nearly firing at it, and it 
