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In the courtyard of a medieval palace which was now guarded only by a red-turbaned ceremonial sentry.

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A big sambar jumped and ran in the direction that the tiger was going, some fifty yards in front of her. The tiger walked calmly toward the lake nearby. She entered the lake and submerged herself in the water.

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... to see her on a path on the other side of the road, almost hidden in the trees.

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She stretched her muscles...

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We drove fast...

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We thought she was going to launch for a hunt, but she relaxed her muscles.

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It walked regally...

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... and passed two other vehicles...

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... right next to us...

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... peacocks, peahen, spotted deer...

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Around 9:40 in the morning all of a sudden there were commotions around us. We learned that one vehicle had sighted a tiger. We rushed to the reported site.

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Everybody kept quite. Five minutes passed and then a tiger slowly came out from the rocks which were ten feet below us.

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