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ON THE TRAIL OF A MAN-EATER
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and, when maddened by wounds, have been known to pull down a man in a tree. This happened once in an expe-


CUMMING'S CAP FRIGHTENS THE TIGER


dition of Colonel Gordon Cumming's, when he took his stand with his gun-bearer on some branches which grew about eight feet up the stem of a tall tree. The tree was