1072 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 31, 1910. 
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A PANTHER HUNT IN TEIE DECCAN. 
A LONG hot eighteen-mile ride, in the middle 
of an April day in the Deccan, brought my 
companion, B., and myself to a little jungle 
village, where our tents were already pitched, 
.says Mercury in the Asian. A panther was re¬ 
ported to have taken up his quarters and to 
have killed several village goats in the vicinity 
quite lately, so we de.cided to sit up for him 
that night. 
Some difficulty was experienced in persuading 
the village head man that two goats for baits 
were a necessary part of our arrangements. 
However, after some argument and" delay, two 
goats were produced, and we were ready to 
start by 4:30 p. m. 
About a mile from the village we struck the 
tracks of a panther, fairly new, and probably 
from the size, a female. There was, therefore, 
no doubt that the report was true, and it was 
more than likely that the panther was not very 
far away. 
The country consisted of low, rocky hills 
covered with scrub and small tree jungle, the 
bills being formed of huge boulders piled up in 
such a manner as to form innumerable caves, 
exactly suited to the requirements of the 
spotted cat. 
Near the foot of one of these hills we found 
■a small tank containing water, and surrounded 
by scrubby sort of jungle. The tank itself was 
about twenty yards in diameter and the open 
space surrounding it about eighty. 
We decided at once that this would be an ex¬ 
cellent place to tie up a goat and watch, so we 
tossed up who should sit there. Having won 
the toss, I set to work to make myself a shelter 
behind a bush twenty yards from the water, 
and on the further side of it from the hill, 
where we thought the panther might be lying. 
My companion B: selected an open spot two 
hundred yards to my right, also near the foot 
of the hill, and crossed by a little patch which 
was obviously sometimes used by the panther 
in his nightly wanderings. 
A shelter consisting of a few branches added 
to existing bushes did not take long to make, 
and by half past five my shikari and myself 
were sitting in silence on the ground, and the 
goat, tied, peacefully nibbling the grass ten 
yards in front. 
The evening was very hot, but the scene was 
delightful, as it generally is about sunset in the 
jungle. I had a very comfortable seat, but soon 
found I had very uncomfortable companions. 
Two snakes began crawling up the bush be¬ 
side me and within a yard of my head. I felt 
inclined to quit, but reflected that any move¬ 
ment at that critical time might destroy all 
chance I had of seeing the panther, so I re¬ 
mained, but kept a watchful eye on the snakes. 
I hey departed in peace after about a quarter of 
an hour and I felt more comfortable; too com¬ 
fortable perhaps, for 1 fell asleep, and my 
shikari, too. 
Later on I was awakened by the sound of a 
thud and scuffle. The full moon had risen and 
was shining brightly over the top of the hill in 
front of me. I could see the panther was on 
top of the goat and that it was lying end on to 
me; but which end was toward me I could 
not tell. Pushing my paradox slowly through 
the loophole, 1 fired at what turned out to be 
the tail end of the panther. Blinded by the 
flash and the smoke, I was unable to see what 
happened, but could hear the wounded beast 
rolling about, growling and tearing up the 
earth. When the smoke cleared I saw a dark 
object making rapidly for the bushes in the di¬ 
rection of the hill. A snap shot at this had no 
effect. The panther was gone, but I knew it 
was hard hit and had great hopes of finding it 
next day. The goat seemed very little the 
worse for his adventure and stood up and began 
grazing again at once. 
I was soon joined by B., who said he had 
heard the wounded animal going over the 
shoulder of the hill above him. 
Next morning we were out soon after sunrise 
and went straight to the spot where the 
wounded panther had disappeared in the bushes, 
'there was plenty of blood and the trail was 
easy to follow. It soon became evident that the 
beast had a broken hind leg. For a mile the 
bleeding was considerable and then stopped al¬ 
together. but the tracks of the broken hind leg 
were still clear in dusty places. 
The trail led us over the spur of the hill, 
where B. had heard the panther moving just 
after it was hit; then down through a valley 
filled with scrub and small trees, to the base 
of another small rocky hill covered with thorny 
bushes. This seemed a likely place for a 
wounded animal to stop, so we advanced cau¬ 
tiously up the slope, very much on the lookout. 
Suddenly the shikari began to exclaim excitedly: 
“There he is! There he is!” and pointed to a 
spot ten yards above us; but we could see 
nothing and stood still awaiting the possibility 
of a charge. 
The panther moved on, however, and went 
rapidly up the side of the hill without giving 
either of us a chance of a shot. We ran round 
the foot, hoping to cut her off should she come 
down the other side. We saw nothing of her, 
however, and returned to the spot where she 
had last been seen and took up the trail again 
from there. 
We took the line up to thp top of the hill 
where we lost it. Casting about, the shikari dis¬ 
covered a mark on the further slope going 
downward. “Gone down this way,” he said, as 
he pointed the mark out. It looked uncom¬ 
monly like the track of a panther; but. sticking 
out horizontally from a small bush, and only six 
inches above the mark, was a thin dead twig. 
It struck one that no animal could possibly have 
made that mark without breaking the dead twig. 
The shikari was confident, however, and we 
made a cast forward down at the foot of the 
hill, where the tracks of a panther were plainly 
visible and going in a direction away from the 
hill. 
We followed this track to a patch of thick 
scrub jungle where we lost it. found it again on 
the other side, lost it and found it again many 
times over. After working away’ at this trail 
till three in the afternoon, when it appeared to 
lead to nowhere in particular, the shikaris 
were of opinion that it was useless to follow 
any further and suggested a return to camp. 
We sat down to have a rest, as the day had 
been scorching hot and we had been on the 
move nearly all the time since sunrise. 
This was the first panther I had ever had a 
shot at and I was not at all keen to give up. 
Nor was I thoroughly convinced that the track 
we had been following lately was the track of 
the wounded panther at all, and, therefore, told 
