Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . that they could scarcely move. Whilstreturning in this plight to the encampment the Don appeared on the put a little life into them and they made the best of their way home-wards, the Don bowling over all that he could catch. He hunted the mainbody into the village after killing fourteen; many were dispersed in thejungle and perished from cold during the night. I saw the carcasses ofthose killed next day, and believe ot
Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India : their haunts and habits from personal observations, with an account of the modes and capturing and taming elephants . that they could scarcely move. Whilstreturning in this plight to the encampment the Don appeared on the put a little life into them and they made the best of their way home-wards, the Don bowling over all that he could catch. He hunted the mainbody into the village after killing fourteen; many were dispersed in thejungle and perished from cold during the night. I saw the carcasses ofthose killed next day, and believe others were overtaken in the bed of astream, and carried away by the water. The Don was now set up with beef for some days; he was not likely toleave the neighbourhood soon, and as the ground was saturated and trackingwould be easy for some time, I decided with my Morlay men to give him agrand dusting, even though we should fail to bag him. On this point even1 had latterly become quite sceptical. * Outcasts who eat carcasses of animals that have died or been killed by wild I Nomadic cattle-graziers, and carriers of grain and salt into remote I- co UJ05 coor UJ o h- UJ IH HUNT THE DON.* 309 The slaughter of the cattle had taken place on the 6th May; theweather was not settled till the 8th; and on the 9th, having made carefularrangements in the interval, I commenced with the only five elephants Ihappened to have and a hundred picked men. The trackers soon ascertained that the Don was lying in a cool greencover on the river, just above an old stone dam which raised the water to asufficient level to be drawn off by the channel that fed the Kamasamoodrumlake. Into this cover the tiger had dragged three carcasses, and had beenthere since the 7th. The only place I could find to command his line ofescape was a point on the opposite side of the river, where the bank wassome four or five feet high. His retreat would be across the river to thatside, and I commanded the
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