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its neck in his jaws from the back. Only a few 
seconds elapsed between the time he sprang out 
and his death, for I fired on the instant, hoping 
to save the goat’s life. On receiving the shot 
he still clung on with teeth and claws with the 
tenacity of death, but, his hold gradually relax¬ 
ing, he slipped to the ground and lay dead be¬ 
side his victim. The latter was not dead, but 
still stood, though its life was fast ebbing 
through the fangholes in its throat. It managed 
to follow us for a few hundred yards, when I 
ordered it to be killed. 
I do not think that panthers often take to 
man eating, although, no doubt, they occasion¬ 
ally carry off children. There have been, how¬ 
ever. some well-known man-eaters of both 
species. One of the larger kind in the Central 
Provinces killed over 200 people before it was 
destroyed, while a small one accounted for 
nearly 100 women and children. The natives 
say that the man-eater is accompanied by the 
spirits of its victims, which warn it of approach¬ 
ing danger. 
Not long after I came out to India a panther 
appeared in the vicinity, and took up its abode 
among a lot of dry watercourses in the middle 
of cultivation, far from all jungle and from the 
hills. Report said that it had killed many peop'e, 
and that it was a man who had turned into a 
wild beast on having a stone thrown at him by 
his wife. 
At mid-day I rode out to a village, sixteen 
miles off, where this animal had killed a child 
some time before. Reports had been much ex¬ 
aggerated, and I could only discover that be¬ 
sides carrying off this child, he had wounded a 
man and a boy and killed a number of goats. 
The natives said he was tailless and black. 
None but the wounded people had seen him by 
daylight, and from their account I thought the 
beast was more likely to be a wolf, although 
they declared that it was a devil. 
The country was cut up by a net of water¬ 
courses, in the banks of which were innumer¬ 
able deep fissures, where it wou'd be useless to 
search for the animal, as my time for the pur¬ 
suit was limited to a day and a night. 
At night my bed was placed on the outskirts 
of the village, under the shadow of a hut. From 
this hut a little girl of five years old had been 
carried off by the beast at midnight, and no 
trace of her was ever found. Two goats were 
picketed some ten yards from my bed. 
The moon sank gradually, and before m'd- 
night disappeared behind the dark line of the 
horizon. Still no sign of the dreaded monster, 
and I went to sleep. At 3 a. m. (as I after¬ 
ward found on consulting my watch) I awoke 
with an indefinable feeling that some animal 
was near. Surely there is some instinct which 
arouses one on such occasions, for I have awoke 
on other occasions with the same feeling under 
similar circumstances when sitting up at night 
for a panther. All my senses were alive on the 
instant. The goats coughed hoarsely, and I saw 
the dark form of a small panther creep over the 
skyline in their direction. It was a starlight 
night, and objects could be distinguished up to 
about ten yards. 
Beyond that distance all was merged in dark¬ 
ness, save where things were clearly defined 
against the skyline. Leaning over the side of 
my bed I picked up my loaded gun, but the 
panther must have seen the movement, for the 
next moment I saw him going rapidly away 
along the skyline. A rapid shot, mv gun belched 
forth a stream of fire, and the panther lay strug¬ 
gling in the crimsoned dust. His victims were 
avenged. 
But night shooting does not always end so 
successfully, and I have missed more than one 
panther in this way, for it is difficult to shoot 
even on the brightest moonlight night. 
All panthers are fierce and sanguinary, and on 
that account are almost more to be dreaded than 
tigers when wounded. The wounds they inflict 
are generally deadly, being poisoned by the 
putrid matter which collects round their teeth 
and claws. I well recollect the case of a man 
who, while sleeping in the verandah of a house, 
was seized by the leg by a panther and dragged 
a short distance. His wounds were, to all ap¬ 
pearance, slight, but he died in a few .days. 
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