APPENDIX I 



"SHIKAR NOTES" 

 BY THE HON. J. W. BEST, O.B.E. 



SHOOTING tigers on foot is the cream of sport; 

 it requires knowledge of the locality, careful plan- 

 ning, crafty stalking, good shooting, and, in addi- 

 tion, entails considerable hardship in enduring 

 the heat. Occasionally risks have to be taken if 

 the tiger is to be bagged. I was once told off to 

 help a distinguished official* to stalk a tiger. The 

 kill was taken as arranged, but the tiger was not 

 by the water, so we went on to a cave which was 

 half-way up the side of a precipitous khad and 

 about a stone's- throw distance from where we 

 were standing in the bottom of the nala. There 

 was no other way of getting a view of. the cave, 

 and the risk of having the tiger come out on top 

 of us had to be taken. We managed to get a 

 stone into the larger mouth of the cave, but not 

 into a small bolt-hole. Nothing happened, so 

 we sat down to rest. Suddenly the shikari 

 showed us a tigress trying to squeeze herself out 

 of the bolt-hole, which she eventually succeeded in 

 doing, and in running up a path towards the top 

 of the khad. Two shots were ineffectual, but the 

 third, which broke her forearm, brought her down 



* Rt. Hon. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson. G.C.I.E.. K.C.B., 

 K.C.M.G. 



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