70 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
aman who informed us i a woman had been killed; we 
hurried on, and in a hollow, below a clump of bamboos, 
came upon the body of the poor woman, over which her niece 
was crying bitterly. The back of the skull was completely 
smashed, and part of the scalp torn off. The woman had 
been sitting in the low veranda of a ground-hut, making thatch, 
and had evidently been whisked off by one fell swoop of the 
Tiger's paw, for no marks of the teeth could be discovered. 
A number of people were seated close beside her, talking 
loudly ; but this only verifies what I have heard about the 
boldness of man-eating Tigers, that they rather take advantage 
than otherwise of a noise to secure their prey ; and this one, a 
Tigress, had a decided partiality for human flesh, for she had 
carried off another woman a year before, when the townspeople 
attested that she cleared the stockade, nine feet high, with 
the woman in her mouth. In the present instance she had 
dragged her prey about fifty yards, but whenever the people 
discovered what had happened, they rushed from their houses 
with torches, and, shouting, drove her off. When we arrived, 
there were fifty men, all armed with spears and guns, and 
many carried torches, while fires had been lit in every 
direction, to frighten the brute away. The scene was a most 
exciting and effective picture ; we had the body removed, and 
beat the thickets, but could discover no trace of the Tigress. 
The woman was buried the same night, in accordance with 
the Burmese custom, followed in all cases of persons killed by 
Tigers. On the following morning we found the tracks of the 
animal clearly imprinted on fresh bricks laid out to dry, and 
its sex indicated by the footprints of her cub.” 
In spite of our having declared the preceding anecdote of 
Tigers to be the last, we cannot resist quoting a telegram sent 
some years ago by the Bengali station-master of a small up- 
_country railway station in India, where a Tiger had taken pos- 
