RATTIER A SURPRISE. 
and two to three inches deep under his left shoulder^ as if cut 
with a sharp instalment, and it appeared to have been only 
very lately done. 
On the 6th January, 1857, I was out after ibex and 
sanibur. At the litde pool of water just beyond the crap on 
the Sispara road, a sambur had just been having- its bath, as 
the water was quite muddy ; 1 put the people in the litde 
shola beyond but He was not there, and after a lon^ tramp 
without seeing any game but plenty of marks both of ibex 
and bears, I sat down for tiffin on some rocks on the 
stream at the far end of the great valley. I was reading 
the Home Nezvs when I became suddenly aware of some- 
thing passing in front of me, and on looking up I saw a 
tiger not thirty paces from me ; he was going at a very 
fast run and took no notice of me, and I doubt if he saw 
me. I was up in a moment and jumping across the stream, 
