TIGER.—Tigris Regdlis 
the spot, for a second attempt, sneaks off discomtited from the scene of his humiliation. 
The spots where there is most danger of meeting a Tiger, are the crossings of nullahs, or 
the deep ravines through which the water-courses run. In these localities the Tiger is 
sure to find his two essentials, cover and water. So apathetic are the natives, and so 
audacious are the Tigers, that at some of these crossings a man or a bullock may be 
sarried off daily, and yet no steps will be taken to avert the danger, with the exception of 
a few amulets suspended about the person. Sometimes the Tigers seem to take a panic, 
and make a general emigration, leaving, without any apparent reason, the spots which 
they had long infested, and making a sudden appearance in some locality where they had 
but seldom before been seen. 
In the districts where these terrible animals take up their abode, an unexpected 
meeting with a Tiger is by no means an uncommon eyent. While engaged in hog- 
spearing, the sportsmen have many times come suddenly upon a Tiger that was lying 
quite composedly in the heavy “rhur” grass from which the hog had started. In such 
cases, the terror of the native horses is excessive, for er dread of the Tiger is so great, 
that the very scent of a Tiger’s presence, or the sight of a dried skin, is sufficient to set 
them plunging and kicking. in their attempts to escape oh the dreaded propinquity. One 
horse, which had been terrified by a Tiger, could not afterwards endure the sight of any 
brindled animal whatever, and was only restored to ordinary courage by the ingenious 
device of his master, who kept a brindled dog in the same stable with the horse until 
the poor beast became reconciled to the ab horred striped fur. 
A very-curious introduction to a Tiger occurred to a gentleman who was engaged in 
deer shooting. 
