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man was only wounded behind by the claws, and had not 
a single bite. I doctored him with arnica, gave him some 
dibs and sent him off * whoost.* It turned out he was deaf 
and was moving about in the jungle. Well, I went after 
the tiger, and as I got to the edge of the ravine he came at 
me most furiously ; I put a ball right through his neck and 
he rolled over and ran down the ravine. I cut him off, 
and the huge beast frantically rushed at me again up the 
slope ; as he came close I gave him my double Kennedy ; 
the first ball in the neck staggered him, the second in the 
chest slew him on the spot, and he fell with his enormous 
head over his forearm. He was, indeed, a stunner, with a 
beard and whiskers like his slayer. Height at shoulder four 
feet three inches. Length of skin twelve feet eight inches. 
On the following day a report came in that at Lakara 
there was a noted man-eater, an enormous beast who lived in 
a den on the hills and could only be got at on foot ; he had 
committed great ravages, taking cattle out of the villages and 
killing people who went into the jungle, so that no one dare 
cut grass or wood in his domain. I agreed to have a shy 
at him on foot, but first 1 determined to try an 'artful 
dodge,' Now as my chieftain went out to feed at night I 
calculated he would not be in his den much before sunrise^ 
so I sent and tied up a buffalo in his jungle and then, 
starting about 4 a.m. for the hills, got there at dawn, and 
immediately posted some thirty markers on the peaks of the 
hills and on trees at each nullah ; my plan succeeded, for 
in less than ten minutes a coolie came rushing up, saying he 
had seen a *bagh,' and as 1 was proceeding to the spot I 
saw flags waving in every direction all round me. This 
bothered me a litde, 1 put down my rifle and was making 
