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a few minutes' survey that the animal embracing the cow was pro- 

 bably a dangerous one, they scuttled up the south bank and com- 

 menced grazing immediately. 



Our first idea was to go down and try and stalk the tigress 

 whilst still en. the slaughtered animal, but Shaikh Boden recom- 

 mended sitting still as the ground was very unfavorable ; and we 

 should certainly frighten her away before we could get within 

 shot, even supposing she remained on the cow long enough to 

 allow us time to walk round : so we sat quiet, and had the satis- 

 faction in a few minutes of seeing the tigress leave her prey and 

 move slowly away ; creeping round the small bit of cover where 

 she had killed, she walked back over her stalk to a pool of water 

 at the east extremity of the islands where we lost sight of her. 



As the tigress had retreated into the very part of the cover 

 where Shaikh Bodeu had first expected to find her, we had merely 

 to follow out the original idea of the beat and we posted ourselves 

 about half-way down the bank under a couple of small trees. 



The tigress turned up almost to the first shout of the beaters 

 and made straight towards A, turning off when opposite to where 

 he was sitting moved nearly parallel to the bank in O.'s and my 

 direction (we were under the same tree) and brought up in a small 

 crack between two islands opposite to us about 80 yards off, and 

 looked round in the direction of the beaters : as this seemed the 

 best chance we should get, we agreed to open fire I fired first and 

 rolled her over, and O. got two difficult shots as she was galloping 

 up a small bank, over which she disappeared. " We then went 

 down, and after a short search found the tigress lying dead in the 

 cypress grass." 



As far as I know the grand and savage spectacle my friend has 

 just told us of has never been equalled as an insight into the 

 tiger's mode of taking its prey. I have never heard a native 

 hunter, and these men have of course better opportunities than 

 others of witnessing wild sights, mention a similar case, or even 

 one at all approaching it. Here nothing was left incomplete : the 

 three sportsmen looked on at their ease at the stalk, could see both 

 destroyer and victim, and how the former took advantage of 

 ground, even to decreasing her pace from gallop to trot, as a wary 



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