This wood was four or five hundred yards across, and the exclamations of the people at once told us that it was the one in which stood the ruined temple of the fakir of whom I have been telling you.

I forgot to say that as the tiger broke out one of the village shikarees had fired at and, he declared, wounded him.
"It was already getting late in the afternoon, and it was hopeless to attempt to beat the jungle that night.

We therefore sent off a runner with a note to the colonel, asking him to send the work elephants, and to allow a party of volunteers to march over at night, to help surround the jungle when we commenced beating it in the morning.
"We based our request upon the fact that the tiger was a notorious man eater, and had been doing immense damage.

We then had a talk with our shikaree, sent a man off to bring provisions for the people out with us, and then set them to work cutting dry sticks and grass to make a circle of fires.
"We both felt much uneasiness respecting the fakir, who might be seized at any moment by the enraged tiger.

The natives would not allow that there was any cause for fear, as the tiger would not dare to touch so holy a man.