CONTENTS. xiii 



CHAPTER XIX. 



ADVENTURES IN BISON-SHOOTING. 



Enjoyable Character of the Sport— Sporting Knives— Heavy Rifles— Vitality and En- 

 durance of Bison — How to Approach Bison — One of my First Attempts — My 

 Ally H.— Camp at Yeminay Gudday— Floored with Fever— The Trackers find 

 Bison— Wound a Bull— Follow Him Next Day — A Long Hunt— Brought to 

 Bay — Kill Him — Fingers before Forks — Marrow - Bones —Honey — Bag another 

 Large Bull — Capture Two Tiger-Cubs — Account of how P. and I Slew the Hanay- 

 kerray Bulls — Another Old Bull — A Four Days' Hunt — Perseverance Rewarded 

 —The Great Mother. . . 253 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE TIGER (FELIS TIGRIS). 



Different Sorts of Tigers — The Cattle-Lifter — Usefulness of Tigers — Small Value of 

 Indian Cattle — The Game-Killer — The Man-Eater — Size and Weight of Tigers — 

 A Tiger Killing and Eating Bears — Cannibal Tigers — Tigers and Wild Dogs — 

 Tigers Killing 1 Bison — Method of Seizing their Prey — Fight between Tiger 

 and Buffalo — Hours of Feeding — Tigers Climbing Trees — Powers of Enduring 

 Hunger and Thirst — Hunting- Ranges of Tigers — Breeding of Tigers — Methods of 

 Hunting Tigers — Beating with Elephants — Driving with Beaters — Shooting over 

 " Kills " or Water — Netting — Excuse for this Method — Poisoning and Trapping 

 Tigers. . . ....... 2G6 



CHAPTER XXL 



TIGER-SHOOTING IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 



Remarks on Tiger-Shooting on Foot — Not necessarily Foolhardy Sport — Effect of 

 the Tiger's Roar — The Iyenpoor Man-Eater — Her Ravages — Kills a Man at Ndg- 

 wully — Another Victim — An Unsuccessful Christmas Day's Hunt — A Herds- 

 man's Fate— A Priest Carried Off— The Man -Eater's Cub— Horrible Death of 

 a Villager — An Unsuccessful Pursuit — Her Last Victim — An Affectionate Son-in- 

 law — News of the Man-Eater — An Evening Watch — Her Appearance — Kill Her 

 — The Villagers of Hebsoor — Terrified Agriculturists — The " Don " Tiger — His 

 Habits and Peculiarities — Effigy of the Don — An Inland Cyclone — The Don's 

 Gluttony — We Hunt Him — An After-Dinner Run — Wound Him — He Escapes for 

 the Time — Continue the Chase next Day — His Death — Regrets — Boiling Down 

 the Don's Fat. . . . ... . . , . 293 



