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treated, the other, feeling his advantage, pushed on 
with renewed vigour. He felt that he was about to 
conquer, and with a roar of anticipated triumph forced 
his adversary on his haunches. At this moment the 
keepers advanced, and by striking the victor on the 
nose with a large bamboo, forced him to disengage his 
horns, when they secured both the combatants with 
cords and led them from the area amid the cheers of 
the gratified spectators. 
During our stay at Nujibabad the thermometer in 
our tents rose occasionally as high as a hundred and 
five degrees. Upon our departure from this town we 
proceeded to Kerutpoor, a distance of about twelve 
miles. We found the country in our route generally 
well cultivated. The view of the distant mountains 
was very striking, especially at sunrise, when their 
broad bosoms, catching the level rays, cast them with 
subdued splendour over the neighbouring plains. 
At Chandpoor, our next halting-place, we received 
much attention from the chief of the district, to whom 
we had letters of introduction. He was unusually 
hospitable and strongly pressed us to extend our stay. 
He was fond of field sports, and before we quitted the 
neighbourhood, afforded us an opportunity of witness- 
ing a somewhat novel mode of catching the tiger. 
It had been ascertained that one of those destructive 
animals was in a jungle at some short distance, and 
had taken up its abode within the cover of a thick 
brake at the very verge of the wood. It had been 
scared from its covert the preceding day, when a 
large hole about six feet square and twelve feet deep 
was dug within a dozen yards of its lair. The sides 
