VI 

 "KILLING A MAN-EATER" 



1DEFORE describing my experience with a man- 

 eating tiger, I want to tell something of their 

 habits and the usual methods of hunting them. 



There are three classes of tiger, the game killer, 

 the cattle killer and the man-eater. 



The game killer confines himself to heavy jungle 

 amongst the hills, where he keeps to the feed- 

 ing-grounds and resorts of game; he is a great 

 killer of deer and wild pigs; he shuns the haunts 

 of man and wanders in the jungle at all hours. 



They are lighter and more active than the cattle 

 killer. Doubtless the reason is that they have to 

 travel farther for their food. 



The terror inspired throughout a district by a 

 man-eating tiger is extreme and the natives are only 

 safe in numbers. The rapidity and certainty of its 

 movements form the chief element of the terror it 

 causes ; it is generally an old tiger or tigress, or one 

 that has been wounded or otherwise hurt, and has 

 been unable to procure its food in its usual way. 



Cattle-killing tigers frequent jungle close to vil- 

 lages and seize a victim amongst cattle where they 

 graze, or pick up a stray animal about the villages 



at night. 



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