Two Trophies from India 



In the early part of March, 1898, my friend, 

 Mr. E. Townsend Irvin, and I arrived at the 

 bungalow of Mr. Younghusband, who was Com- 

 missioner of the Province of Raipur, in Central 

 India. Mr. Younghusband very kindly gave us 

 a letter to his neighbor, the Rajah of Kahrigur, 

 who furnished us with shikaris, beaters, bullock 

 carts, two ponies and an elephant. We had varied 

 success the first three weeks, killing a bear, sev- 

 eral nilghai, wild boar and deer. 



One afternoon our beaters stationed themselves 

 on three sides of a rocky hill and my friend and 

 I were placed at the open end some two hun- 

 dred yards apart. The beaters had hardly begun 

 to beat their tom toms and yell, when a roar came 

 from the brow of the hill, and presently a large 

 tiger came out from some bushes at the foot. 

 He came cantering along in a clumsy fashion over 

 an open space, affording us an excellent shot, and 

 when he was broadside on we both fired, breaking 



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