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I saw him making for the stream below in ii dying state ; 
he staggered on and fell dead in a clump of reed bamboos 
at the edge of the stream ; a huge stag with the most 
massive antlers I have ever seen. My lirst shot had 
struck him at the point of the left shoulder and the second 
behind the right shoulder, both deadly wounds. When 
the people went to fetch in the meat in the afternoon 
they said a leopard had been feeding on the carcass. 1 
went out to watch for him in the evening, but he did not 
show himself. 
On the 22nd January, 1869, I was out in the early 
morning, and in passing over some ground where I had 
burned the grass, found fresh tracks of elephants. I 
measured the circumference of the largest foot print and 
made it sixty-five and a half inches, this multiplied by two 
gives the height of the elephant, ten feet eleven inches ; 
as it was doubtful when the tracks had been made, we 
passed on to the sambur ground, and came on fresh tracks 
of ibex with those of either a tiger or a large panther, 
and shortly after my shikarie, Francis, pointed out two 
sambur by the side of a large wood, and one appealed to 
be a handsome stag. I had a long stalk down to them, 
and in the meantime they moved into a dtp between two 
woods. Whilst watching them, a crow settled on the antlers 
of the large one and kept cawing as if warning him of my 
approach ; however, the stag did not appear to understand 
crow language, for on my crossing over the side of the hill 
the crow w^as gone but the stag was standing quite unalarmed 
about eighty yards away from me. Part of him was hidden 
by a tree, but a step on one side uncovered his shoulder, and 
the next moment 1 had pitched him apparendy right on his 
