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flanked on three sides by forest and on the fourth by a watercourse. ‘ Stops ’ 
were posted in trees on two sides and Capt. Poynder and Capt. Dudley North 
walked their elephants through the thick grass to a point from which the ani- 
mal could be seen. The rhino moved off on their approach, but was turned 
back by the tumult raised by the stops and blundered back to within 10 yards 
of the guns. It was extremely difficult to see in the heavy cover but both 
Capt. North and Capt. Po3Tider fired, putting 4 high velocity '470 bullets 
into it. The rhino lurched forward but got away and was again turned by 
the stops, some 200 or 300 yards off when the brute was finally dropped with a 
shot through the neck from Poynder’s rifle. All five shots had taken effect. 
Four of them in the region of the shoulder. The shot in the neck had finished 
it. But for this, and the ‘ stops ’ posted in the trees, the animal would have 
got away in all probabihty to perish miserably in the trackless swamps. A 
shot in the vertebrae in the forepart of the neck will drop a rhino in his 
tracks. This and the brain shot would seem to be the most effective. Mr. 
Percival Landon shot his large bull rhino at a 100 yards with a single bullet 
from a ‘350 rifle, placed three or four inches in front of the root of the ear. 
Another party consisting of Col. Worgan, Mr. Petrie, Sir Godfrey Thomas, 
Commander Newport and Capt. the Hon’ble Piers Legh left camp on ele- 
phants late in the morning. They went down to the river bed from Bikna 
Thori Station about 4 miles and changed from the pads into howdah ele- 
phants. The ring was formed and very soon a fine tigress gave Sir Godfrey 
Thomas a shot. “ It was not a difficult one,” wrote Sir Godfrey later, “and 
Rushbrooke Williams who was in my howdah is certain that I hit it. Perso- 
nally I am not at all sure as my elephant had no guts and turned round and 
more or less bolted as soon as the tiger appeared. I was on the floor of the 
howdah and Rushbrooke Williams nearly fell out while the elephant began to 
make for the woods. Luckily the mahout stopped the bnite and we got back 
near the line to see the tiger do^vn with everyone shooting at it. It took an 
awful lot of lead to kill it stone dead. An uproar then began down the line 
and we discovered that there were two cubs outside the ring. The lino closed 
in upon them as we had an idea of taking the beasts alive, but they were too 
big to catch Avithout nets and a good deal of preparation, and too young to 
leave, as in all probability they would not have lived without their mother. 
Col. Worgan got one and Commander Newport the other. All the way 
home the jungle was beaten but nothing was seen.” 
A tiger measuring 9 ft. 2 inches was also shot by Capt. Bruce Ogilvy on 
this day. 
Sunday, December \%ih . — It being Sunday there was no shooting to-day, and this 
was rather a relief to my skinning department, which had been working at high 
pressure the last few days getting rid of the great mass of material that had 
been sent in. I was up all night with my men, as, with so much already having 
come in and vrith great disarticulated limbs of rhino arriving continually I had 
to work against time to prevent anything being spoilt. Day and night oper- 
ations thus became the order. We had a generous supply of disinfectants which 
were scattered with a lavish hand, but even so it was an obscene business and 
not to be dwelt on more than is necessary. An entry I saw in the diary of a 
member of the staff succinctly describes the case. “ I visited the skinning camp 
where Ellison is dealing wth the stuff; there was an appalling stink there ! ! ! ” 
The skinning camp was guarded day and night by Gurkhas. Tigers’ claws, 
whiskers and fat and kindred articles are of much value to the native who 
has uses for them not dreamt of in our philosophy and with such a 
profusion of riches lying about one had to guard against the intrasion of the 
“ snapper-up-of-unconsidered-trifles.” One such gentleman we caught red-handed 
and his subsequent fate at the hands of the Nepalese officials was a sufficient 
deterrent against attempts of this nature. Anent the tigers fat. To me came 
