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pat, as often does occur when an unwounded tiger breaks back. I 

 attributed his breaking- back to his being driven over his kill. I 

 have noticed tigers always break back when an attempt is made to 

 drive them over the kill. I should like to know if the experience 

 of others is the same. The second time the beat commenced in the 

 same way, and the tiger was driven into some high grass near 

 Mr. Boevey's tree. He came out with a bound under Mr. Boevey's 

 " niahla." Mr. Boevey saw that he was going straight towards my 

 tree in an open space, and generously sacrificed his shot so as to 

 enable me to get an easy one. I killed him without any trouble, 

 and I have here some photos, of him taken where he fell. He was 

 not a large tiger, nor a mangy one, nor did he appear to be different 

 in any way to an ordinary tiger. He was nine feet long. All the 

 beaters, shikaries, &c, declared that he was the identical man-eater, 

 but could bring me no other evidence than their oft -repeated assertion 

 and the fact that many people had been killed lately in the jungles 

 in the neighbourhood. There was still the tigress to be accounted 

 for ; which had been pugged to a distant jungle that morning, and 

 this tigress probably was a man-eater too. In the night I heard the 

 tigress roar several times within a mile from my tent. The next 

 morning and the morning after that we found her pugs at the water 

 where she had drunk close to our camp. These were carried into 

 some likely jungle which we beat on both days without seeing any- 

 thing of her. On the third day she drank at the same water, passed 

 close to our camp along the same path, and the shikaries declared 

 her to be lying down on the side of a hill. No one had seen her, 

 but they pointed out some vultures sitting in a tree up the hill, and 

 said that she had killed a pig or a chetul, and they stated most 

 positively she was lying down in a certain spot pointed out to us. 

 In this they were correct. She had killed a pig, and she was lying 

 down in the place indicated. It is difficult to account for the cer- 

 tainty and accuracy of these jungle men in placing the exact where- 

 abouts of a tiger which no one has seen. How we ought to proceed 

 was a question of woodcraft, and our Bheels held a council of war. 

 After considerable discussion they took us up hill, saying they would 

 beat up hill to the guns, but after taking us part of the way 

 they concluded it was too hot for her to go up the hill and it woidd 

 be better to drive her through some shady jungle at the bottom. 

 We offered no opinion, but simply left it to them to decide. Our 

 knowledge of woodcraft was as nothing compared to theirs. This 



