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" victim in the sholahs on these hills ; many are sufficiently 

 " clear to afford this, and no doubt he takes advantage of such 

 " spots when a chance offers in them, but in general, the 

 " woods are dense with under-growth, interspersed with trees 

 " so close together, that the spring of a tiger, and the power of his 

 11 blow must, I should say, be greatly interfered with ; then again 

 " his presence as beforesaid, is so liable to be detected by the deer 

 " that his chances of capture are remote, but at night the deer are 

 " out in the open, and then perhaps the wind being by chance 

 " in his favor he may succeed, and I am disposed to believe 

 " that this is the most likely time for him to do so, though he is in 

 " no way restricted as to time or place, for he slays the Todahs* 

 " buffaloe oftener during the day than during the night and at 

 " times close to their habitations. Sambur are remarkably 

 " cautious on entering sholahs, and the faintest taint of the 

 " tiger will deter them doing so ; only a few days ago, a sportsman 

 " witnessed a case in point, from a long distance a tiger was 

 " observed crossing a ridge of a hill, pass down to the edge 

 " of a long but narrow sholah, along the outside of which he 

 " prowled up the whole length of it and disappeared ; sometime 

 " after a stag appeared over the crest of the hill, not very far from 

 " where the tiger had passed and immediately gave signs, by 

 " cocking his tail and erecting the bristly hair along his back, that 

 " he w*s aware of the enemy's presence ; he forthwith retreated, 

 " but presently re-appeared some way below where he had first 

 " essayed to pass on to the sholah ; again the offensive odour 

 " assailed his delicate organs, once more he went back, making 

 " yet another attempt though with the same result still further 

 " down, meanwnile the watcher of all these manosuvres had 

 " gradually approached ; the stag at last reached a point where 

 " he could no longer scent his foe, but, alas ! poor brute ! he had 

 " only escaped from the frying-pan into the fire ; for a deadly shot 

 " from the unerring rifle of the keen sportsman on his trail, laid 

 " him low. Now it is this acute sense of smell that the tiger has to 

 " contend with, before he can provide his larder with game, and 

 " how does he manage it ? We cannot give him the credit of the 

 " intellect of man, who, on his pursuit of game, is well aware that 



