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parties collecting seeds. I got about one large gunny 
bag full of perfect seed; this is enough to start a 
plantation. Coming back from the jungle we found that 
a tiger had followed our footsteps for several miles , - 
absolutely fresh tracks. It made me rather uneasy, 
as we had to pass through dense jungle thicket, and 
in my imagination I saw it lurking in every dark spot . 
I was glad when I struck the village again. Up in the 
jungle we met a bear with cubs. The natives shouted 
and drove.it away, leaving one young behind. This the 
natives brought down, and I amused myself tonight 
feeding it with condensed milk. Well, the Hydnocarpus 
seed hunt is over, and I am glad." 
January 24, 1921. 
"Early this morning a little boy about five years 
old came to this village from an outlying place , about 
a fourth of a mile distant, and reported that a tiger 
had carried off some women. I immediately went with 
about 30 men and found two women lying on the edge of 
a paddy field, stone-dead; a little girl two years 
old had been carried away by the tiger. One woman, 
still alive, was lying near the hut badly wounded. 
The little boy who came with the news was the only 
other survivor. The tiger had pushed him into the fire 
and his knee was burned severely. All this happened 
at dawn, so the little boy said. 
"This was a terrible thing to me because the hus- 
bands of the dead, women had been with me kalaw-seed 
hunting,- and for some reason or other they stayed in 
this village, although there remained plenty of time 
for them to return, as it was only four in the after- 
noon when I dismissed them all. We had the woman car- 
to the village and I did the best I could for her 
wound. 
"The tiger is said to be the same which followed 
us into the jungle. I wrote a letter to the police at 
Mawleik, some four days' journey. Meantime , against my 
better judgment, the natives and I are going on a 
search for the tiger. I advised them not to go, as 
the child who was carried away is of course dead, and 
we have no weapons except my Colt. 
"This kalaw seed hunt has cost three lives and may 
cost one more. I hope to get away tomorrow and will 
take the wounded woman with me to Mawleik, trusting 
that she can stand the journey. (The woman died in 
the Mawleik hospital; and the tiger was later caught 
in a trap. ) " 
