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before him, but further on, the jungle became so thick it w^as 
too dangerous to proceed ; at one place just below me I could 
see where he had rolled down^ and I was in hopes he had 
fallen over the precipice. The only thing now to be done 
was to go home, aiKl come out and look for him later. I went 
to the spot where he stood when I fired at him, found where 
the shell had exploded on a rock ; but it had first evidently 
gone through his intestines, for there was more of that most 
foetid substance which we had found in the shola. I am 
pretty certain the tiger did not charge at us, but hearing the 
explosion of the shell behind him, he had bolted in the only 
direction left open to him. 
One day I was out after a wounded stag and was 
crossing the hill near Ouna-mund shola when I saw the men 
making signs to me , and the little dog boy came running up 
to me saying^ '* plenty tigers," and pointed down below, and 
there to my astonishment, down in the valley were five tigers 
calmly walking across, one of them just leaping over the 
narrow stream ; they went into a small shola, remained there 
for a short time and then went over the hill into Seven Stag 
valley, there were two full grown tigers and three young ones 
the size of large panthers ; they were quite unaware of our 
presence near them. 
One day in February, 186S, I was out after sambur 
when, at some little distance, 1 saw some hinds and calves 
standing in a mud pool, looking at what appeared to be a 
large deer lying down in the swamp some 60 yards from 
them ; on putting my glasses up I saw it was a magnificent 
tiger who was intently watching them. Suddenly he sprang 
up and made three or four tremendous bounds towards them, 
but finding, I suppose^ that he could not reach them, he 
