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and storm, the discomforts of all sorts, the constant failures, the 

 trials of temper and health, and the wear and tear of constitution 

 which are allotted to every sportsman in India. I have seen two 

 tigers standing in the clear moonlight close to me. While my 

 regiment was marching in the Deccan, a brother officer who met 

 with an untimely death, a few years after from the accidental dis- 

 charge of his own gun, thought he saw a hyaena passing through 

 some low brushwood, and with ordinary small game ammunition 

 having pushed forward to intercept the beast, he suddenly came 

 upon three large tigers, the last of which stopped to look at him ; 

 both of these were scenes to be remembered, but the vision of five 

 large tigers together must have haunted the fortunate spectator for 

 many a day. Any one who has seen the onslaught of a hunting 

 leopard on an antelope, must envy the man who can have witnessed 

 the rush of a tiger, albeit an unsuccessful one, at so fine a deer as 

 a samber. 



He also mentioned a case, where a brother sportsman who had 

 just shot a female elephant, heard a few minutes afterwards, a 

 most unusual uproar in the jungle ; on reaching the spot he saw, on 

 the head of the orphaned calf of the elephant, a tiger which he shot 

 in the act of pulling down the young animal. Also ; with reference 

 to tigers eating carrion, that they almost always devour dead bison, 

 that may have been shot in their neighbourhood ; not while the 

 meat is fresh however ; but (as was evident from their traces) visit- 

 ing the spot often and waiting until the flesh became high enough 

 to suit their epicurean palates. He also told me that he knew an 

 instance of a tiger coming to the body of a dead elephant and 

 devouring part of the trunk ; a somewhat similar case occurred to 

 a brother officer of mine, who having shot an elephant near Bogatha, 

 twenty miles or so north of Shuay Gheen in Burmah, left a couple 

 of men to cut out the tusks ; night coming on before the task was 

 completed, they got into a tree, having of course made some rude 

 platform for that purpose ; before dusk a tigress with two cubs 

 came to and commenced to eat the dead elephant : while she was 

 so engaged, one of the men shot her on the carcase. In corrobora- 

 tion of the idea that tigers sometimes feed on reptiles and small 

 animals, referred to at page 94 of Jerdon, I may mention that I saw 



